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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...
Thursday, October 19, 2023
'the Theatre of ourselves' : the proto-psychology of Doctor Browne
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Often defined as a polymath because of the multiplicity of his interests, scientific, antiquarian and esoteric, an equally useful and perha...
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Saturday, April 01, 2023
Vulcan's Aquarium
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In reply to a recent enquiry, what exactly is 'the Aquarium of Vulcan' from which this blog is named, its useful to refer to the anc...
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