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 185
... reports for the Royal Society , to which his father and the Society itself seem to have attached considerable importance . Even before Edward's ship left Yarmouth , Dr. Thomas Browne sent two notes " with 2 portmanthoes and an hamper ...
... reports for the Royal Society , to which his father and the Society itself seem to have attached considerable importance . Even before Edward's ship left Yarmouth , Dr. Thomas Browne sent two notes " with 2 portmanthoes and an hamper ...
Page 200
... report on him . Sir Thomas is always solemnly severe with excess . He tells of the death of a Mr. Thomas Peck , who ... reports proudly that " my Lord of Arundell , eldest sonne of my L. Duke of Norfolk . . gave me a visit , " that ...
... report on him . Sir Thomas is always solemnly severe with excess . He tells of the death of a Mr. Thomas Peck , who ... reports proudly that " my Lord of Arundell , eldest sonne of my L. Duke of Norfolk . . gave me a visit , " that ...
Page 202
... reported microscopy ; Newton discovered the binomial theorem , pro- posed the law of gravitation , and described the solar ... reports from foreign lands , sent him by Edward and also by an old friend , a Mr. L'Escaillot , a minister of ...
... reported microscopy ; Newton discovered the binomial theorem , pro- posed the law of gravitation , and described the solar ... reports from foreign lands , sent him by Edward and also by an old friend , a Mr. L'Escaillot , a minister of ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
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