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 82
... written about Religio Medici , it has not often been noticed that in his preface Browne speaks of other discourses " of affinitie thereto " composed about the same time , indicating that Religio Medici was but one of several essays with ...
... written about Religio Medici , it has not often been noticed that in his preface Browne speaks of other discourses " of affinitie thereto " composed about the same time , indicating that Religio Medici was but one of several essays with ...
Page 83
... written in such odd moments . Browne could certainly have made his book an elaborate , formalized treatise if he had ... writing his reflections on his own religious faith as a kind of private confessional , he was under no such com ...
... written in such odd moments . Browne could certainly have made his book an elaborate , formalized treatise if he had ... writing his reflections on his own religious faith as a kind of private confessional , he was under no such com ...
Page 118
... writing in the seven- teenth century , but does it not suggest a backward - looking mind still encumbered with old ways of thinking ? Granting that Browne mentions " experience ... written on the various " errors , 118 Sir Thomas Browne.
... writing in the seven- teenth century , but does it not suggest a backward - looking mind still encumbered with old ways of thinking ? Granting that Browne mentions " experience ... written on the various " errors , 118 Sir Thomas Browne.
Contents
Religio Medici A Doctors Confession of Faith | 9 |
From Cheapside to Winchester | 26 |
Oxford | 36 |
Copyright | |
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