Quotes:Browne, Thomas

Zirkoff, Boris

Browne, Sir Thomas. English author and physician, b. in London, 1605; d. in 1682. Educ. at Winchester college, 1616, and Oxford, 1623-26. Studied medicine and practised for some time. Travelled in Ireland, France and Italy, 1630-33, receiving the degree of M.D. at Univ. of Leyden. Returned to London, 1634; settled in practice at Norwich, 1637. His principal works are: Religio Medici (London: pr. for Andrew Crooke, 1642, 1643), translated into many languages and which was placed on the Index Expurgatorius; Pseudodoxia Epidemica (London, 1646), which is a storehouse of out-of-the-way facts; and Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, outstanding for richness of imagery and pomp of style. Browne was knighted by Charles II, 1671.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, p. 421