English polymath and author (1605–1682)

Sir Thomas Browne. Engraving attributed to T. Cross, 1669.

Sir Thomas Browne. Line engraving by P. Vanderbank, 1683.

Sir Thomas Browne. Line engraving.

A man designated as Sir Thomas Browne. Oil painting.

Sir Thomas Browne. Lithograph by M. E. Cotman.

Sir Thomas Browne. Photograph after a sculpture, 1905.

Sir Thomas Browne. Line engraving by F. van Hove, 1672.

Sir Thomas Browne. Photograph after a painting by J. Wollaston, 1734.

Sir Thomas Browne / by Edmund Gosse.

Cradock, Amherst and Howell : a link between the Selbys of Ightham and Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich / G.C.R. Morris.

The childhood of Sir Thomas Browne : evidence from the Court of Orphans / Trevor Hughes.

9 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves (first blank), 292 pages ; (12mo)

Arcana microcosmi; or, the hid secrets of mans body disclosed: first, in an anatomatical [sic] duel between Aristotle and Galen, about the parts thereof. Secondly, by a discovery of the ... diseases, symptomes, and accidents of mans body. With a refutation of Doctor Browns Vulgar errors. And the ancient opinions vindicated ... / [Alexander Ross].

Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths / By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick.

The works of Sir Thomas Browne / edited by Charles Sayle.

2 volumes (lxi, 1,198 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia epidemica / edited by Robin Robbins.

8 unnumbered leaves, 371 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf : add. engr. t.page ; (8vo)

Religio medici / [Sir Thomas Browne].

16 unnumbered pages, 329 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; (folio)

Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths / [Sir Thomas Browne].

La religion du medecin, c'est à dire: Description necessaire par Thomas Brown ... touchant son opinion accordante avec le pur service divin d'Angleterre.

24 unnumbered pages, 360 pages ; 12mo (14 cm)

La religion du médecin, c'est à dire: Description nècessaire / par Thomas Brown, ... touchant son opinion accordante avec le pur service divin d'Angleterre.

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Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia epidemica / edited by Robin Robbins.

Religio medici / [Sir Thomas Browne].

Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths / [Sir Thomas Browne].

La religion du medecin, c'est à dire: Description necessaire par Thomas Brown ... touchant son opinion accordante avec le pur service divin d'Angleterre.

La religion du médecin, c'est à dire: Description nècessaire / par Thomas Brown, ... touchant son opinion accordante avec le pur service divin d'Angleterre.

Sir Thomas Browne / by Edmund Gosse.

Sir Thomas Browne. Photograph after a sculpture, 1905.

Cradock, Amherst and Howell : a link between the Selbys of Ightham and Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich / G.C.R. Morris.

The childhood of Sir Thomas Browne : evidence from the Court of Orphans / Trevor Hughes.

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Thomas Browne

Images from the collections

Images by Thomas Browne

Images featuring Thomas Browne

Works from the collections

Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia epidemica / edited by Robin Robbins.

Religio medici / [Sir Thomas Browne].

Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths / [Sir Thomas Browne].

La religion du medecin, c'est à dire: Description necessaire par Thomas Brown ... touchant son opinion accordante avec le pur service divin d'Angleterre.

La religion du médecin, c'est à dire: Description nècessaire / par Thomas Brown, ... touchant son opinion accordante avec le pur service divin d'Angleterre.

Sir Thomas Browne / by Edmund Gosse.

Sir Thomas Browne. Photograph after a sculpture, 1905.

Cradock, Amherst and Howell : a link between the Selbys of Ightham and Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich / G.C.R. Morris.

The childhood of Sir Thomas Browne : evidence from the Court of Orphans / Trevor Hughes.

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