Aquarium of Vulcan

Elephants are mentioned in each of Doctor Thomas Browne's major literary works. A little-known notebook description highlights his zoolo...

     An index to essays (2010-2025) and short posts on the late Renaissance humanist, Christian mystic, Hermetic philosopher, Paracelsian ph...

Recent media coverage on how the combination of climate warming and global air-traffic are encouraging new, exotic speci es of spider to inh...

  I've found these books on Thomas Browne to be useful over the decades. From left to right -  * Collected Works of Thomas Browne Religi...

Often defined as a polymath because of the multiplicity of his interests, scientific, antiquarian and esoteric,  an equally useful and perha...