Truth and Error in Early Modern Science: Thomas Browne and His World
Featuring twelve leading experts in the literary, philosophical, and scientific culture of seventeenth-century England, this conference focuses on the works and worlds of Sir Thomas Browne, the physician, essayist, and naturalist who was one of the era’s most eloquent and idiosyncratic interpreters of the book of nature. www.huntington.org
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The Wilderness of Forms and the Difference of Things in Browne and His Contemporaries
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Errors and Non-Entities: Browne and Hartlib between Discourse and Catalog
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Fact and Fiction in Ralph Cudworth’s 'True Intellectual System of the Universe'
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Their Manner of Discourse? Scribal Culture, Civility, and the Early Royal Society
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The Fleeting Shape of the Absent God: The Garden of Cyrus and the Apophatic
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