Thomas Browne

BROWNE, (Sir) Thomas.  b. London, 19 November 1605; d. Norwich, 19 October 1682. He was educated at Winchester College and Broadgates Hall, Oxford (now part of Pembroke College), followed by the study of medicine at Montpellier, Padua, and Leiden. In 1637 he began medical practice at Norwich, where he remained for the rest of his life. He had previously written a version of Religio Medici. This was published without his knowledge in 1642, and officially in 1643. Among his subsequent works were Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Enquiries into many received tenets and commonly-presumed truths, which examined prove but Vulgar and Common Errors (1646); Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial; or a Discourse of the...