Thomas Browne and the writing of early modern science / Claire Preston.
Thomas Browne and the writing of early modern science / Claire Preston.
Thomas Browne and the writing of early modern science / Claire Preston.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, c2005.
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N828.409/2
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English
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xiv 250 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Browne's civility -- 2. Religio Medici : the junior endeavour -- 3. The civil monument : Pseudodoxia Epidemica and investigative culture -- 4. The laureate of the grave : Urne-Buriall and the failure of memory -- 5. The jocund cabinet and the melancholy museum : a brief excursion into Brownean co...
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New York : Cambridge University Press, c2005.
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England
Date Published
c2005.
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"Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. In this major new evaluation of Browne's oeuvre, Preston examines how the developing essay form, the discourse of scientific experiment, and above all Bacon's mod...
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Thomas Browne and the writing of early modern science / Claire Preston.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2005.
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N828.409/2
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74VKqPR4AlqO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKqPR4AlqO
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0521837944 (alk. paper)
9780521837941 (alk. paper)
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828.409
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991020161419702626
