Volume 1

The works of Sir Thomas Browne : including his unpublished correspondence, and a memoir / edited by Simon Wilkin.

  • Thomas Browne
Date:
1846
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Credit: The works of Sir Thomas Browne : including his unpublished correspondence, and a memoir / edited by Simon Wilkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Besides his lady, who died in 1685,6 he left a son and three daughters. Of the daughters nothing- very & $a^(£a*i remarkable is known ; but his son, Edward Browne, ZcP^a^T requires a particular mention. ciZ^A^Y He WaS b°rn ab°Ut the y6ar 1642; aild aft6r havin^ /# hiJl^^M^ passed through the classes of the school at Norwich, bus/Hftjitr-'fa became bachelor of physick at Cambridge; and after- &wU- J^^^^wards removing to Merton College in Oxford, was Jf^^W^^ admitted there to the same degree, and afterwards %aC^^^- made a doctor. In 1668 he visited part of Germany, Cl^cU*^ an(j jn f-jjg year following made a wider excursion into /j^jflfJ- Austria, Hungary, and Thessaly; where the Turkish Ltff-QV- Sultan then kept his court atLarissa. He afterwards ^S^JL passed through Italy. His skill in natural history made him particularly attentive to mines and metal- lurgy. Upon his return he published an account of the countries through which he had passed; which I have heard commended by a learned traveller, who has visited many places after him, as written with scrupulous and exact veracity, such as is scarcely to be found in any other book of the same kind. But whatever it may contribute to the instruction of a naturalist, I cannot recommend it as likely to give much pleasure to common readers: for whether it be, that the world is very uniform, and therefore he who is resolved to adhere to truth, will have few novelties to relate; or that Dr. Browne was, by the train of his studies, led to enquire most after those things, by which the greatest part of mankind is little affected; a great part of his book seems to contain very unim- portant accounts of his passage from one place where he saw little, to another where he saw no more. Upon his return, he practised physick in London ; 8 Besides his Iwly, Sjc] Her monument is given in the Supplementary Memoir.