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  Encyclopedia: Thomas Browne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Sir Thomas Browne, engraving from an eighteenth century frontispiece This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or more.
Thomas Brown was born in Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbrightshire on 9 January 1778 and died in London on 2 April 1820.
Brown wrote a criticism of ~arwins Zoonoinia (1798), and was one of the first contributors to the Edinburgh Review, in the second number of which he published a criticism of the Kantian philosophy, based entirely on Villerss French account of it.
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 SIR THOMAS BROWNE - LoveToKnow Article on SIR THOMAS BROWNE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Brownes writings are among the few specimens of purely literary work produced during a period of great political excitement and discord.
Of Browne, as of the greatest writers, it is true that the style is the man. The form of his thought is as peculiar and remarkable as the matter; the two, indeed, react on one another.
Browne professes to be absolutely free from heretical opinions, but asserts the right to be guided by his own reason in cases where no precise guidance is given either by Scripture or by Church teaching.
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 BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682) - Online Information article about BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
Browne's writings are among the few specimens of purely See also:
simple style than is usual with Browne, is a wonderful storehouse of out-of-the-way facts and scraps of erudition, 1 Ed.
Sir Thomas Browne's Works, including his Life and Correspondence, were carefully edited by Simon Wilkin in 1835-1836.
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Browne graduated from the University of Leiden in 1633, having previously studied at the Universities of Montpellier and Padua for his medical degree.
It was the American scholar Jeremiah Stanton Finch, Dean Emeritus at Yale University, who completed the indexing of the books of Sir Thomas and his son Edward Browne's libraries, "after many years in many libraries" in 1986.
The following titles represent only a fraction of the total volume of Library of Sir Thomas Browne and have been selected as a thumb-nail sketch of the omnivorous reading material and bibliophilia which Browne engaged upon over a half century.
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