Thomas Browne
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"Natura nihil agit frustra, is the only indisputable axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature."--Religio Medici (1643) by Thomas Browne "Every man is not only himself; there have been many Diogenes, and as many Timons, though but few of that name; men are lived over again; the world is now as it was in ages past; there was none then, but there hath been some one since, that parallels him, and is, as it were, his revived self."--Religio Medici (1643) by Thomas Browne |
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Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682) was an English author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including mathematics, science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry and are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Although often described as suffused with melancholia, Browne's writings are also characterised by wit and subtle humour, while his literary style is varied, according to genre, resulting in a rich, unique prose which ranges from rough notebook observations to polished Baroque eloquence.
Literary works
- Religio Medici (1643)
- Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646–72)
- Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)
- The Garden of Cyrus (1658)
- A Letter to a Friend (1656; pub. post. 1690)
- Christian Morals (1670s; pub. post. 1716)
- Musaeum Clausum Tract 13 from Miscellaneous Tracts first pub. post. 1684
- See also Library of Sir Thomas Browne
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A Letter to a Friend, Abiogenesis, Adipocere, Advice to a Son, Aetites, Alexander Ross (writer), Allegory of the cave, Amanita phalloides, Amphisbaena, Andrew Crooke and William Cooke, Antediluvian, Antiquarian, Antonio Bosio, Archetype, Arthur Dee, Athanasius Kircher, Athenaeus, Athenaeus, Auricularia auricula-judae, Baconian method, Bembine Tablet, Bernardino Ochino, Black-tailed godwit, Book of Common Prayer, Brazen head, Brief Lives, Browne, Bury St Edmunds witch trials, Byzantine calendar, Cabinet of curiosities, Cacus, Caledonian Antisyzygy, Carbuncle (gemstone), Caricature, Catholicon (electuary), Cave of Dogs, Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, Celtic Reptile & Amphibian, Charles Edward Sayle, Charles Lamb, Charles le Grosse, Chi (letter), Christian Hebraist, Christian Kabbalah, Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, Christian Morals, Christian mortalism, Christian mysticism, Christoph Helvig, Coincidence, Columbidae, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Coulomb's law, Credo quia absurdum, Cremation, Cultural Amnesia (book), Cultural depictions of spotted hyenas, Cyranides, Cyrus the Great, Cyrus, Death of Cleopatra, Deathwatch beetle, Deipnosophistae, Dentistry, Depiction of Jesus, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Doctrine of signatures, Dream interpretation, Dutch elm disease, East Coker (poem), Edmund Gosse, Edward Browne (physician), Edward Kelley, Edward Tenison, Electric charge, Electricity, Elisabeth Lutyens, Essay, Essays of Elia, Etymology of electricity, Etymology, Eurasian bittern, Faith, Science and Understanding, Falconry, Francis Bacon, Francis Osborne, Francis Willughby, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Gateway to the Great Books, Genesis flood narrative, Geoffrey Keynes, Gerolamo Cardano, Ghost of a Rose, Giambattista della Porta, God in Christianity, God the Father in Western art, Godwit, Grotesque, Guardian angel, Hallucination, Harvard Classics, Harvard University Department of Philosophy, Henry Alfred Pegram, Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, Henry Power, Hermeticism, Herostratus, History of electrical engineering, History of electromagnetic theory, History of encyclopedias, History of research into the origin of life, History of science, Homunculus, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, I sing of Olaf, Icelandic Sheepdog, Iceni, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Index of philosophy articles (R–Z), Indigenous peoples, James Crossley (author), James Hart (physician), Javier Marías, Jean Robertson (author), Joan Bennett (literary scholar), Joan Carlile, Joel Chandler Harris, Johann Kaspar Lavater, John Browne (anatomist), John Elkington Gill, John Evelyn, John Heydon (astrologer), John Jenkins (composer), John Masefield, Jorge Luis Borges, Joseph Hall (bishop), Lady Dorothy Browne and Sir Thomas Browne, Latitudinarian, Letters of Charles Lamb, Library of Sir Thomas Browne, Life of Plato, Literary Taste: How to Form It, Loren Eiseley, Lost literary work, Lozenge (shape), Lucid dream, Marine counterparts of land creatures, Mario Bettinus, Marius Nasta, Matthew Robinson (priest), Meekness, Melancholia, Memento mori, Miriam Tildesley, Moby-Dick, Morgellons, Moses (Michelangelo), Mummia, Musaeum Clausum, Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2, Musk and Amber, Myth, Natural History (Pliny), Natural philosophy, Nebuchadnezzar (Blake), New Directions Publishing, Nigredo, North Sea Magical Realists, Norwich Market, Norwich School, Norwich, Norwich, Numerology, October 19, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, Opium and Romanticism, Opodeldoc, Ornithology, Ornithology, Outline of medicine, Panama Canal, Panodorus of Alexandria, Patterns in nature, Paul Nash (artist), Penguin English Library, Penguin Great Ideas, Pentalogy, Peter Green (historian), Peter Lambeck, Peter Riley, Philip Schwyzer, Philosopher's stone, Physician writer, Physician writer, Physiognomy, Prix Laure Bataillon, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Quincunx, Rabindranath Tagore, Religio Medici, Religious views of Samuel Johnson, Rhabdomancy, Richard Baxter, Richard Marienstras, Robert Bayfield, Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth, Robert Still, Roberto Calasso, Roger Bacon, Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism, Salem witch trials, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Scientific Revolution, Scientific skepticism, Sexuality of William Shakespeare, Simon Wilkin, Sir Philip Wodehouse, 3rd Baronet, St Peter Mancroft, Statary, Stuart London, The Attenbury Emeralds, The Beaver (fable), The Counterplot, The Garden of Cyrus, The Man Within, The Rings of Saturn, The Spirit of the Age, Theatrum Chemicum, Thomas Browne (Canon of Windsor), Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro, Thomas Lushington, Thomas Sydenham, Thomas Tenison, Thomas Urquhart, Thomas Willis, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Tony Kushner, Treatise of the Three Impostors, Tree model, Triboelectric effect, Tullia (daughter of Cicero), Unicorn, University of East Anglia, University of Padua, Urn, Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, Veterinarian, Virginia Woolf, Visions Before Midnight, Vittoria Sanna, Walter Pater, Welsh rarebit, White stork, William Alexander Greenhill, William Fuller (poet), William Gilbert (physicist), William Henry Harris, William Osler, Zoroaster, Zoroastrianism
