Sir Thomas Browne (In Our Time)
1642 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the range, depth and style of Browne (1605-82) , a medical doctor whose curious mind drew him to explore and confess his own religious views, challenge myths and errors in science and consider how humans respond to the transience of life. His Religio Medici became famous throughout Europe and his openness about his religion, i
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Around 1642
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Edo period (1603)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)