A Browne Index

    

An index to essays (2010-2024) 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

* In the Laboratory -  Putrificatio -Ginseng  - Peruvian Bark  - Opium - Dr. Browne's Nose - Ethereal Salt

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

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

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

* 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