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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... scientific impulse to understand the physical world with the call of faith toward the world of the spirit . Religio Medici comes before the triumph of the new science in England and its inevitable clash with theology , but it ...
... scientific impulse to understand the physical world with the call of faith toward the world of the spirit . Religio Medici comes before the triumph of the new science in England and its inevitable clash with theology , but it ...
Page 106
... scientific or philosophical inquiries . It is historically remarkable that an England torn by civil war was able to nourish a rapid growth of scientific activity . During the turbulent middle decades of the century a number of men of ...
... scientific or philosophical inquiries . It is historically remarkable that an England torn by civil war was able to nourish a rapid growth of scientific activity . During the turbulent middle decades of the century a number of men of ...
Page 145
... scientific observation and possibly on crude experiments . ” 5 Not to deny the Doctor credit for an original discovery , however , we must confess that Urn Burial is greater far as a richly imaginative essay than as a scientific ...
... scientific observation and possibly on crude experiments . ” 5 Not to deny the Doctor credit for an original discovery , however , we must confess that Urn Burial is greater far as a richly imaginative essay than as a scientific ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
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