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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 25
Page 21
... turning away from a contem- plation of the absolute to a knowledge of the particular , where man would be the measure of ... turn the pages of Religio Medici , we find that Browne spans the two ages and reconciles the seeming conflict be ...
... turning away from a contem- plation of the absolute to a knowledge of the particular , where man would be the measure of ... turn the pages of Religio Medici , we find that Browne spans the two ages and reconciles the seeming conflict be ...
Page 35
... turn up in his cor- respondence , save that of the son of Dr. Love , the Warden . Writing to his own son Edward , in ... turns up in Browne's correspondence ; but it is a matter of record that in his last years he contributed ten pounds ...
... turn up in his cor- respondence , save that of the son of Dr. Love , the Warden . Writing to his own son Edward , in ... turns up in Browne's correspondence ; but it is a matter of record that in his last years he contributed ten pounds ...
Page 116
... turn renders its ideas obsolete , so much the better . The Enquiries do not assert but ask . Thus the theme of the book , at which so much fun has been poked , lies in the first word of the title : Enquiries . This simple but important ...
... turn renders its ideas obsolete , so much the better . The Enquiries do not assert but ask . Thus the theme of the book , at which so much fun has been poked , lies in the first word of the title : Enquiries . This simple but important ...
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
15 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
anatomy ancient Anthony à Wood asserted Bacon Broadgates Browne's Cambridge Chapter Charles Church Clayton College of Physicians contemporaries copy death discourse dissected Doctor Dorothy early edition Edward Browne England English essay Evelyn experimental experiments faculty famous father followed Galen Galileo Garden of Cyrus Gui Patin Halifax Harvey hath Henry Henry Power History inquiry interest John John Aubrey John Evelyn King knowledge later Latin learned lectures letters Leyden lived London Lushington magnetic manuscript mentioned mind Montpellier natural Norfolk Norwich notebooks notes observed Osler Oxford Padua Paris passages patients Patin Pembroke Pembroke College person philosophy practice printed Pseudodoxia Epidemica Puritan quincunx Religio Medici remarkable Royal Society Royalist scientific seems seventeenth century Shibden Hall Sir Kenelm Sir Thomas Browne studies things thought tion treatise University unto Urn Burial Vulgar Errors Whitefoot Wilkin William Winchester writing wrote young