托马斯·布朗
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托马斯·布朗 爵士(Sir Thomas Browne ; ,1605年10月19日—1682年10月19日)是一位英格兰王国 的博学家 及作家,巴洛克時期 英語散文 的最偉大的大師之一。
他的作品揭示了他廣泛的學習領域,对科学 和医学 、宗教 及西方秘契主義 均有贡献。他的作品展示了他對自然世界 的深層次好奇心,並且受到培根派 科学革命 思想的影響。這些作品還經常引用经典 和聖經 ,並且具有自我风格。虽然据说他患有精神忧郁症 ,他的作品常常具有敏锐的幽默,十分风趣。
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Reid Barbour and Claire Preston (eds), Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed (Oxford, OUP, 2008).
Breathnach, Caoimhghín S. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) . Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine . January 2005, 98 (1): 33–6. PMC 1079241 . PMID 15632239 . doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.1.33 .
Mellick, Sam. Sir Thomas Browne: physician 1605–1682 and the Religio Medici . ANZ Journal of Surgery. June 2003, 73 (6): 431–7. PMID 12801344 . S2CID 35212182 . doi:10.1046/j.1445-2197.2003.t01-1-02646.x .
Hughes, J T. The medical education of Sir Thomas Browne, a seventeenth-century student at Montpellier, Padua, and Leiden. Journal of Medical Biography . May 2001, 9 (2): 70–6. PMID 11304631 . S2CID 28583255 . doi:10.1177/096777200100900202 .
Böttiger, L E. [From Thomas Browne to Dannie Abse. English physicians-writers over four centuries]. Lakartidningen . January 1995, 92 (3): 176–80. PMID 7837855 .
Hookman, P. A comparison of the writings of Sir William Osler and his exemplar, Sir Thomas Browne . Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine . 1995, 72 (1): 136–50. PMC 2359421 . PMID 7581308 .
Dunn, P M. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) and life before birth . Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. January 1994, 70 (1): F75–6. PMC 1060996 . PMID 8117135 . doi:10.1136/fn.70.1.F75 .
Martens, P. The faiths of two doctors: Thomas Browne and William Osler. Perspect. Biol. Med. 1992, 36 (1): 120–8. PMID 1475152 . S2CID 38693451 . doi:10.1353/pbm.1993.0048 .
White, H. An introduction to Thomas Browne (1605–1682) and his connections with Winchester College. Journal of Medical Biography . 1988, 6 (2): 120–2. PMID 11620012 . S2CID 42967204 . doi:10.1177/096777209800600211 .
Wilding, Michael, 'Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987)
Segall, H N. William Osler and Thomas Browne, a friendship of fifty-two years; Sir Thomas pervades Sir William's library. Korot . 1985, 8 (11–12): 150–65. PMID 11614038 .
Webster, A. Threefold cord of religion, science, and literature in the character of Sir Thomas Browne . BMJ . 1982, 285 (6357): 1801–2. PMC 1500275 . PMID 6816374 . doi:10.1136/bmj.285.6357.1801 .
Dirckx, J H. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682). A model for medical humanists. JAMA . October 1982, 248 (15): 1845–7. PMID 6750160 . doi:10.1001/jama.248.15.1845 .
Huntley, F L. " Well Sir Thomas?": oration to commemorate the tercentenary of the death of Sir Thomas Browne . BMJ. July 1982, 285 (6334): 43–7. PMC 1499109 . PMID 6805807 . doi:10.1136/bmj.285.6334.43 .
Shaw, A B. Sir Thomas Browne: the man and the physician . BMJ. July 1982, 285 (6334): 40–2. PMC 1499136 . PMID 6805806 . doi:10.1136/bmj.285.6334.40 .
Schoeck, R J. Sir Thomas Browne and the Republic of Letters: Introduction. English Language Notes . 1982, 19 (4): 299–312. PMID 11616938 .
Geis, G; Bunn I. Sir Thomas Browne and witchcraft: a cautionary tale for contemporary law and psychiatry. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry . 1981, 4 (1–2): 1–11. PMID 7035381 . doi:10.1016/0160-2527(81)90017-0 .
Shaw, A B. Vicary Lecture, 1977. Sir Thomas Browne: the man and the physician . Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England . July 1978, 60 (4): 336–44. PMC 2492123 . PMID 352233 .
Martin, D C. Sir Thomas Browne 1605–1682. Investigative Urology . May 1976, 13 (6): 449. PMID 773893 .
Buxton, R W. Sir Thomas Browne and the Religio Medici. Surgery, Gynaecology & Obstetrics . December 1970, 131 (6): 1164–70. PMID 4920856 .
Huston, K G. Sir Thomas Browne, Thomas le Gros, and the first edition of Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1646 . Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences . July 1970, 25 (3): 347–8. PMID 4912887 . doi:10.1093/jhmas/XXV.3.347 .
Merton, S. Old and new physiology in Sir Thomas Browne: digestion and some other functions. Isis, an International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. 1966, 57 (2): 249–59. PMID 5335398 . S2CID 36746296 . doi:10.1086/350117 .
Keynes, G. Sir Thomas Browne . BMJ. December 1965, 2 (5477): 1505–10. PMC 1847298 . PMID 5321828 . doi:10.1136/bmj.2.5477.1505 .
Doyle, B R. Sir Thomas Browne, Physician And Humanist. McGill Medical Journal . October 1963, 32 : 79–83. PMID 14074523 .
Schenk, J M. Psychiatric Aspects of Sir Thomas Browne with a New Evaluation of His Work . Medical History . April 1961, 5 (2): 157–66. PMC 1034604 . PMID 13748180 . doi:10.1017/s0025727300026120 .
Finch, J S. The lasting influence of Sir Thomas Browne. Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia . August 1956, 24 (2): 59–69. PMID 13360999 .
MacKinnon, M. An unpublished consultation letter of Sir Thomas Browne. Bulletin of the History of Medicine . 1953, 27 (6): 503–11. PMID 13115796 .
Viets, H R. A fragment from Sir Thomas Browne. N. Engl. J. Med. September 1953, 249 (11): 455. PMID 13087622 . doi:10.1056/NEJM195309102491107 .