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 73
... seems to have been familiar with a Houghton family , especially the attractive Elizabeth and Lydia Houghton , this being in the year 1664 , when the daughters of Dr. John Houghton would have been of about the same age as Browne's own ...
... seems to have been familiar with a Houghton family , especially the attractive Elizabeth and Lydia Houghton , this being in the year 1664 , when the daughters of Dr. John Houghton would have been of about the same age as Browne's own ...
Page 113
... seems not to have considered him for his new book . Crooke dealt largely in plays , rather than in studious works like the one Browne now had ready ; moreover , his handling of Religio Medici had been hasty , to say the least , and ...
... seems not to have considered him for his new book . Crooke dealt largely in plays , rather than in studious works like the one Browne now had ready ; moreover , his handling of Religio Medici had been hasty , to say the least , and ...
Page 239
... seems to be partly based on Browne's letters to Ashmole , communicated in turn to Wood , and quoted in The Diary and Will of Elias Ashmole , ed . R. T. Gunther , Oxford , 1927 , pp . 130-131 , and n . Ashmole's Thea- trum Chemicum ...
... seems to be partly based on Browne's letters to Ashmole , communicated in turn to Wood , and quoted in The Diary and Will of Elias Ashmole , ed . R. T. Gunther , Oxford , 1927 , pp . 130-131 , and n . Ashmole's Thea- trum Chemicum ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
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