A Browne Index

    

An index to essays (2010-2025) and short posts on the late Renaissance humanist, Christian mystic, Hermetic philosopher, Paracelsian physician and Janus-faced sage of Norwich also known as Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82).

* Bibliography - A Browne bookshelf

 * Introduction to Library-

'A Paradise of books' - Dr. Browne's library

 

* Individual books in Library -

- de Astronomia - de Harmonia Mundi - Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae -Optica - Fasciculus Chemicus - Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay -Mathematical Beehives -Physica Subterranea -Polygraphiae - Purple Rain  -  Oedipus Egypticus 

* Countries -  America  - China   -  Ancient Egypt  -  Japan

* Esoteric - Astronomy and Astrology  - Kabbalah - A cryptogram deciphered ?

* Garden of Cyrus - That Vulcan gave arrows -Bembine Tablet of Isis -Defeating the mischief intended by the Elephants - Harp  -Labyrinth of Crete -the Pythagorical Music of the Spheres  -Cryptography of Gafferel  -Nebuchadnezzar -Vitruvian Man -Why the goddesses commonly sit cross-legged -The phantastical Quincunx of Plato

* In the Laboratory -  Putrificatio -Ginseng  - Peruvian Bark  - Opium -Dr. Browne's Nose -Ethereal Salt -Jupiter's brain in a piece of Cytheridian cheese

* In relationship to -  John Dee  - Della Porta -Goethe  -   Jung  - Kepler - Paracelsus  -  Van Helmont 

* Nature -  Spiders -  Pelican - Vulture  -  Frog - Elephant -  Peacock feathers

* Psychology  -  'the Theatre of Ourselves'  - Coincidence  - Janus -  On Dreams - Paris syndrome

* Review - 

'Compassion is the physician's teacher'.

* Urn-Burial - 

Lost in the uncomfortable Night of nothing -  Invisible Sun  

* Urn and Garden -  

Dr. Browne's alchemical mandala

*Visual Arts. - Ghosts and Quincunxes - Artwork by Peter Rodulfo and Mark Burrell - On Art and Paintings