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Saturday, March 15, 2025
Jupiter’s brain in a piece of Cytheridian cheese
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The English philosopher-physician Thomas Browne (1605-82) possessed refined senses. Along with his sharp eyesight and acute olfactory sense ...
Friday, February 14, 2025
Why the goddesses sit commonly cross-legged in ancient draughts ?
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In the concluding chapter of Thomas Browne's hermetic discourse The Garden of Cyrus (1658) the physician-philosopher fires a rapid voll...
Wednesday, November 06, 2024
'A paradise of books' - Dr. Browne's library
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In 1671 King Charles II visited Norwich. Accompanying him was the Courtier John Evelyn who wrote in his diary- 'My Lord Henry Howard com...
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