Thomas Browne
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Sir Thomas Browne was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science, medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a dee
Sir Thomas Browne (c. 1641–1650), attributed to Joan Carlile
Lady Dorothy Browne and Sir Thomas Browne (c. 1641–1650), by Joan Carlile
Browne's house in Norwich
Browne's skull, as illustrated in Charles Williams's The Measurements of the Skull of Sir Thomas Browne (1895)
Pseudodoxia Epidemica
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Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths, also known simply as Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, is a work by the English polymath Thomas
Thomas Browne
…Medicatus (1645). Browne's book was placed upon the Papal Index Librorum Prohibitorum in the same year. In 1646, Browne published his encyclopaedia, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into Very many Received Tenents, and commonly Presumed Truths, the title of which refers to the prevalence of false beliefs and "vulgar…
Title page of a 1646 copy of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Vulgar Errors
Table of contents page for the 1646 copy of Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Vulgar Errors
First page of the 1646 copy of Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Vulgar Errors