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Showing posts with label Library of Sir Thomas Browne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Library of Sir Thomas Browne. Show all posts
Thursday, August 28, 2025

The phantastical Quincunx in Plato

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'The shaping influence of Platonism on Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) has long been recognized by those attracted to the intangible atmosph...
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...
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