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 90
... taken with " this good - natured creature " ( Religio Medici ) that he read it through before falling asleep . Like Browne's composing verses in a storm on the Irish Sea , Sir Kenelm's midnight perusal of Religio Medici is a choice ...
... taken with " this good - natured creature " ( Religio Medici ) that he read it through before falling asleep . Like Browne's composing verses in a storm on the Irish Sea , Sir Kenelm's midnight perusal of Religio Medici is a choice ...
Page 91
... taken up in procuring your book . " Now , his concluding words in the Observations suggest clearly that he had been writing all through the night and was finishing in the morning : " From Winchester - House , the 22nd ( I think I may ...
... taken up in procuring your book . " Now , his concluding words in the Observations suggest clearly that he had been writing all through the night and was finishing in the morning : " From Winchester - House , the 22nd ( I think I may ...
Page 112
... taken shape in his mind , and the one book was , in a sense , the natural outgrowth of the other , with the influence of Bacon's ideas increasingly apparent . He kept before him not only the notion of a " catalogue of doubts " but also ...
... taken shape in his mind , and the one book was , in a sense , the natural outgrowth of the other , with the influence of Bacon's ideas increasingly apparent . He kept before him not only the notion of a " catalogue of doubts " but also ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
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