Browne, Sir Thomas

Browne, Sir Thomas. Pseudodoxia in The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Volume I. John Grant, Edinburgh. 1912. 

From Essays, Civil and Moral, and The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon Areopagitica and Tractate on Education, by John Milton Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne. New York, Collier [cl909] Harvard Classics v. 4. 

Sencourt, Robert. "Outflying philosophy a literary study of the religious element in the poems and letters of John Donne and in the works of Sir Thomas Browne and of Henry Vaughan the Silurist, together with an account of the interest of these writers in scholastic philosophy, in Platonism and in Hermetic physick, with also some notes on witchcraft." BLitt thesis, Oxford Univ, 1923. 

Dunn, William Parmly. Sir Thomas Browne, a study in religious philosophy. 2nd ed ed. Oxford OUP, 1951. 

Browne, Thomas.The works of Sir Thomas Browne. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Chicago (IL) Univ. of Chicago P., 1964. 

Debus, Allen George. Sir Thomas Browne and the study of colour indicators. Ambix 10. 

Faulkner, Kevin. Scintillae marginila sparkling margins alchemical and hermetic thought in the literary works of Sir Thomas Browne. rhttp //www.levitv.com/alchemv/sir thomas browne.htmll. 

Merton, Egon Stephen. "Science and imagination in Sir Thomas Browne." PhD thesis, Columbia Univ, 1949. 

Merton, Egon Stephen. Science and imagination in Sir Thomas Browne. New York King s Crown P., 1949 reprint, New York AMS P., 1973. viii, 156 p. ISBN 0404043127... 

Pratt, Minnie B. "Sir Thomas Browne and the Hermetic maze The structure of the "Religio medici"." PhD thesis, Univ. of North Carolina, 1979. 

The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Volume 1 Pseudodoxia Epidemica Chapter VI (p. 152)... 

No, I knew better than that. I read to him. I had a book by Sir Thomas Browne that he coveted. It became a little joke between us that I possessed that book and he didn t. ... 

We stood apart from each other, and I wondered miserably if I should stay just a moment longer and thank him for lending me Sir Thomas Browne. But the chance was gone. While I hesitated, he turned away. 

In fact, the next phase was the most lethal of all and had always marked the end of our alchemical adventure. Whereas the distillation is a delicate stage of the process, the next requires the addition of volatile saltpeter to the mixture, and this causes an explosion that results at worst in the sudden death of the alchemist and at best an end to all his hopes. Mayow says the combination of fixed salt with nitro-aerial particles causes niter to fly off like smoke. And Sir Thomas Browne says the explosion of gunpowder is due to the generation of a large bulk of air by the antipathetic reaction of saltpeter to sulfur. 

For several months they wandered, until in September 1586 Count Wilhelm Rosenberg of Bohemia invited them to stay in his castle at Trebona. Kelley immersed himself in his alchemical experiments, and even Dee began to take a necessary interest in the subject. There are many stories that they succeeded in making gold John Aubrey, the 17th-century writer and antiquarian, wrote that "Arthur Dee, his sonne, a physician at Norwich, and intimate friend of Sir Thomas Browne, told Mr. 

Sir Thomas Browne, an English physician, used the word electricity for the first time. Elektron (Gr. "amber"). 

Sir Thomas Browne mentions the experiment, saying that mistake may be made in this way of trial, whether the Antimony is not weighed immediately... 

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