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Thomas Browne
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English polymath and author (1605–1682)

Also known as: Sir Thomas Browne, Томас Браун, توماس براون, 토머스 브라운 (작가), トーマス・ブラウン, 托马斯·布朗

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Known works

  • The prose of Sir Thomas Browne
  • Religio medici
  • Sir Thomas Browne's works
  • Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths
  • The works of the learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt., Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich