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Religio Medici (1643)
CONTENTS
PREFATORY NOTE
ANNOTATIONS UPON RELIGIO MEDICI
THE ANNOTATOR TO THE READER
ANNOTATIONS UPON RELIGIO MEDICI
THE FIRST PART
THE SECOND PART
A LETTER SENT UPON THE INFORMATION OF ANIMADVERSIONS TO COME FORTH
TO THE READER
RELIGIO MEDICI. THE FIRST PART
SECT. 1
SECT. 2
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SECT.5
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THE SECOND PART
SECT.1
SECT.2
SECT.3
SECT.4
SECT.5
SECT.6
SECT.7
SECT.8
SECT.9
SECT.10
SECT.11
SECT.12
SECT.13
SECT.14
SECT.15
ENDNOTES
Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646)
CONTENTS
TO THE READER
THE POSTSCRIPT
THE FIRST BOOK OR GENERAL PART
CHAPTER I. Of the Causes of Common Errors.
CHAPTER II. A further Illustration of the same.
CHAPTER III. Of the second cause of Popular Errors; the erroneous disposition of the People.
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V. Of Credulity and Supinity.
CHAPTER VI. Of adherence unto Antiquity.
CHAPTER VII. Of Authority.
CHAPTER VIII. A brief enumeration of Authors.
CHAPTER IX. Of the Same.
CHAPTER X. Of the last and common Promoter of false Opinions, the endeavours of Satan.
CHAPTER XI. A further Illustration.
THE SECOND BOOK
CHAPTER I. Of Crystal.
CHAPTER II. Concerning the Loadstone.
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV. Of Bodies Electrical.
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII. Of some Insects, and the properties of several Plants.
THE THIRD BOOK
CHAPTER I. Of the Elephant.
CHAPTER II. Of the Horse.
CHAPTER III. Of the Dove.
CHAPTER IV. Of the Bever.
CHAPTER V. Of the Badger.
CHAPTER VI. Of the Bear.
CHAPTER VII. Of the Basilisk.
CHAPTER VIII. Of the Wolf.
CHAPTER IX. Of the Deer.
CHAPTER X. Of the King-fisher.
CHAPTER XI. Of Griffins.
CHAPTER XII. Of the Phœnix.
CHAPTER XIII. Of Frogs, Toads, and Toad-stone.
CHAPTER XIV. Of the Salamander.
CHAPTER XV. Of the Amphisbæna.
CHAPTER XVI. Of the Viper.
CHAPTER XVII. Of Hares.
CHAPTER XVIII. Of Moles, or Molls.
CHAPTER XIX. Of Lampries.
CHAPTER XX. Of Snayls.
CHAPTER XXI. Of the Chameleon.
CHAPTER XXII. Of the Ostrich.
CHAPTER XXIII. Of Unicorns Horn.
CHAPTER XXIV. That all Animals of the Land, are in their. kind in the Sea.
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI. Of Sperma-Ceti, and the Sperma-Ceti Whale.
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII. Of some others.
THE FOURTH BOOK
CHAPTER I. Of the Erectness of Man.
CHAPTER II. Of the Heart.
CHAPTER III. Of Pleurisies.
CHAPTER IV. Of the Ring-finger.
CHAPTER V. Of the right and left Hand.
CHAPTER VI. Of Swimming and Floating.
CHAPTER VII. Concerning Weight.
CHAPTER VIII. Of the passage of Meat and Drink.
CHAPTER IX. Of Sneezing.
CHAPTER X. Of the Jews.
CHAPTER XI. Of Pigmies.
CHAPTER XII. Of the great Climacterical year, that is, Sixty three.
CHAPTER XIII. Of the Canicular or Dog daies.
THE FIFTH BOOK
CHAPTER I. Of the Picture of the Pelecan.
CHAPTER II. Of the Picture of Dolphins.
CHAPTER III. Of the Picture of a Grashopper.
CHAPTER IV. Of the Picture of the Serpent tempting Eve.
CHAPTER V. Of the Picture of Adam and Eve with Navels.
CHAPTER VI. Of the Pictures of Eastern Nations, and the Jews at their Feasts, especially our Saviour at the Passover.
CHAPTER VII. Of the Picture of our Saviour with long hair.
CHAPTER VIII. Of the Picture of Abraham sacrificing Isaac.
CHAPTER IX. Of the Picture of Moses with horns.
CHAPTER X. Of the Scutcheons of the Tribes of Israel.
CHAPTER XI. Of the Pictures of the Sibyls.
CHAPTER XII. Of the Picture describing the death of Cleopatra.
CHAPTER XIII. Of the Pictures of the Nine Worthies.
CHAPTER XIV. Of the Picture of Jephthah sacryficing his daughter.
CHAPTER XV. Of the Picture of John the Baptist.
CHAPTER XVI. Of the Picture of St. Christopher.
CHAPTER XVII. Of the Picture of St. George.
CHAPTER XVIII. Of the Picture of Jerom.
CHAPTER XIX. Of the Pictures of Mermaids, Unicorns, and some others.
CHAPTER XX. Of the Hieroglyphical Pictures of the Egyptians.
CHAPTER XXI. Of the Picture of Haman hanged.
CHAPTER XXII. Compendiously of many questionable Customs, Opinions, Pictures, Practices, and Popular Observations.
CHAPTER XXIII. Of some others.
THE SIXTH BOOK
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII. Of East, and West.
CHAPTER VIII. Of the River Nilus.
CHAPTER IX. Of the Red Sea.
CHAPTER X. Of the Blackness of Negroes.
CHAPTER XI. Of the same.
CHAPTER XII. A Digression concerning Blackness.
CHAPTER XIII. Of Gypsies.
CHAPTER XIV. Of some others.
THE SEVENTH BOOK
CHAPTER I. Of the Forbidden Fruit.
CHAPTER II. That a Man hath one Rib less then a Woman.
CHAPTER III. Of Methuselah.
CHAPTER IV. That there was no Rain-bow before the Flood.
CHAPTER V. Of Sem, Ham and Japhet.
CHAPTER VI. That the Tower of Babel was erected against a second Deluge.
CHAPTER VII. Of the Mandrakes of Leah.
CHAPTER VIII. Of the three Kings of Collein.
CHAPTER IX. Of the food of John Baptist, Locusts and Wild-honey.
CHAPTER X. That John the Evangelist should not die.
CHAPTER XI. More compendiously of some others.
CHAPTER XII. Of the Cessation of Oracles.
CHAPTER XIII. Of the death of Aristotle.
CHAPTER XIV. Of the Wish of Philoxenus.
CHAPTER XV. Of the Lake Asphaltites.
CHAPTER XVI. Of divers other Relations.
CHAPTER XVII. Of some others.
CHAPTER XVIII. More briefly of some others.
CHAPTER XIX. Of some Relations whose truth we fear.
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)
CONTENTS
TO MY WORTHY AND HONOURED FRIEND THOMAS LE GROS OF CROSTWICK ESQUIRE.
TO MY WORTHY AND HONOURED FRIEND NICHOLAS BACON OF GILLINGHAM ESQUIRE.
ENDNOTES.
CHAPTER I
ENDNOTES.
CHAPTER II
ENDNOTES.
CHAPTER III
ENDNOTES.
CHAPTER IV
ENDNOTES.
CHAPTER V
ENDNOTES.
The Garden of Cyrus (1658)
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
ENDNOTES.
CHAPTER II
ENDNOTES.
CHAPTER III
ENDNOTES.
CHAPTER IV
ENDNOTES.
CHAPTER V
ENDNOTES.
Brampton Urnes (1712)
BRAMPTON URNS.
The Miscellany Tracts (1684)
CONTENTS
THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER
OBSERVATIONS UPON SEVERAL PLANTS MENTION’D IN SCRIPTURE.
OF GARLANDS AND CORONARY OR GARDEN-PLANTS.
OF THE FISHES EATEN BY OUR SAVIOUR WITH HIS DISCIPLES AFTER HIS RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD.
AN ANSWER TO CERTAIN QUERIES RELATING TO FISHES, BIRDS, INSECTS.
OF HAWKS AND FALCONRY ANCIENT AND MODERN.
OF CYMBALS, ETC.
OF ROPALIC OR GRADUAL VERSES, ETC.
OF LANGUAGES AND PARTICULARLY OF THE SAXON TONGUE.
OF ARTIFICIAL HILLS, MOUNTS OR BURROWS IN MANY PARTS OF ENGLAND.
OF TROAS; WHAT PLACE IS MEANT BY THAT NAME.
OF THE ANSWERS OF THE ORACLE OF APOLLO AT DELPHOS TO CROESUS KING OF LYDIA.
A PROPHECY CONCERNING THE FUTURE STATE OF SEVERAL NATIONS.
THE EXPOSITION OF THE PROPHECY
MUSÆUM CLAUSUM
A Letter to a Friend (1690)
CONTENTS
A LETTER TO A FRIEND, UPON OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF HIS INTIMATE FRIEND.
ENDNOTES.
Christian Morals (1716)
CONTENTS
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE DAVID EARL OF BUCHAN.
THE PREFACE
PART I
ENDNOTES.
PART II
ENDNOTES.
PART III
ENDNOTES.
Common Place Books (1846)
CONTENTS
Part 1
Part 2
On Aristotle
On Guardian Angels
Concerning the too nice curiosity of censuring the Present, or judging into Future Dispensations
Miscellaneous Works
CONTENTS
REPERTORIUM; OR, SOME ACCOUNT OF THE TOMBS AND MONUMENTS IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF NORWICH, IN 1680.
ADDENDA
AN ACCOUNT OF ISLAND, ALIAS ICE-LAND, IN THE YEAR 1662.
CONCERNING SOME URNES FOUND IN BRAMPTON-FIELD, IN NORFOLK, ANN. 1667.
CONCERNING THE TOO NICE CURIOSITY OF CENSURING THE PRESENT, OR JUDGING INTO FUTURE DISPENSATIONS.
UPON READING HUDIBRAS.
NOTES ON CERTAIN BIRDS FOUND IN NORFOLK.
NOTES ON CERTAIN FISHES AND MARINE ANIMALS FOUND IN NORFOLK.
ON THE OSTRICH.
BOULIMIA CENTENARIA.
UPON THE DARK THICK MIST HAPPENING ON THE 27TH OF NOVEMBER, 1674.
ACCOUNT OF A THUNDER STORM AT NORWICH, 1665.
UPON THE DARK THICK MIST.
ON DREAMS.
ON BUBBLES.
OBSERVATIONS ON GRAFTING.
ON TOBACCO.
ON ECHOES.
OBSERVATIONS ON FROGS.
OBSERVATIONS ON EGGS.
ON FOSSIL REMAINS IN NORFOLK.
ON ARTHUR DEE.
TO A FRIEND INTENDING A DIFFICULT WORK.
TO AN ILLUSTRIOUS FRIEND ON HIS WEARISOME CHATTERER.
FROM A READING OF ATHENAEUS.
NOTES ON COOKERY OF THE ANCIENTS.
THE SEA-FIGHT.
MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS
CONTENTS
ON ANATOMY
LUNGS
PERICARDIUM
NAVEL
EAR
SKIN
TAILS
STOMACH
BOULIMA
QUININE. CONCERNING THE CORTEX PERUVIANUS CHINA CHINI OR QUINANA PERUVE
LETTERS TO MERRETT.
CONTENTS
No. 1.
No. II.
No. III.
No. IV.
No. V.
No. VI.
No. VII.
No. VIII.
No. IX.
APPENDIX A.
APPENDIX B.
APPENDIX C.
APPENDIX D.
The Criticism
Sir Thomas Browne by Leslie Stephen (1892)
Sir Thomas Browne and his ‘Religio Medici’: An Appreciation by Alexander Whyte (1898)
CONTENTS
APPRECIATION AND INTRODUCTION
SELECTED PASSAGES
SIR THOMAS ON HIMSELF
ON GOD
ON THE SPIRIT OF GOD
ON THE MERCY OF GOD
ON THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
ON PROVIDENCE
ON ANGELS
ON MAN
ON NATURE
ON PHILOSOPHY
ON FINAL CAUSE
ON DEATH
ON HEAVEN
ON HELL
ON PRAYER
ON CHARITY
ON THE REFORMATION
ON A DYING PATIENT OF HIS
ON A HEAVENLY MIND
ON THE RELIGIO MEDICI
LAST LINES OF THE RELIGIO MEDICI
Sir Thomas Browne by Walter Pater (1899)
Sir Thomas Browne by Lytton Strachey (1906)
Sir Thomas Browne by Peter Eade (1908)
Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Kenelm Digby by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1919)
The Biographies
Life of Browne by Anthony Wood (1692)
Life of Browne by Samuel Johnson (1756)
Thomas Browne by Arthur Henry Bullen (1900)
The Delphi Classics Catalogue
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