Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & FaithCollier Books, 1961 - 251 pages A study of Sir Thomas Browne, a seventeenth century physician who was deeply concerned with his own faith at a time of religious strife and of new interest in science, and the remarkable age in which he lived. |
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Page 110
... remarkable , his mind keen and orig- inal . His studies had produced a mass of comments crowded into sheaf after sheaf of paper which overflowed his desk and shelves . Gradually he had been able to organize his material under headings ...
... remarkable , his mind keen and orig- inal . His studies had produced a mass of comments crowded into sheaf after sheaf of paper which overflowed his desk and shelves . Gradually he had been able to organize his material under headings ...
Page 145
... remarkable . The style is only what one would expect from a cultured gentleman of the seventeenth century . Urn Burial is not so much a deliberately planned piece of literary crafts- manship as a blending of fragmentary observations ...
... remarkable . The style is only what one would expect from a cultured gentleman of the seventeenth century . Urn Burial is not so much a deliberately planned piece of literary crafts- manship as a blending of fragmentary observations ...
Page 166
... remarkable , because he lived just before the famous seventeenth - century botanists— Malpighi , Camerarius , Leeuwenhoek - had published their important works . He was especially interested in fungi , spend- ing hours poking around old ...
... remarkable , because he lived just before the famous seventeenth - century botanists— Malpighi , Camerarius , Leeuwenhoek - had published their important works . He was especially interested in fungi , spend- ing hours poking around old ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
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