Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, et al,

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, et al,

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Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, et al, by Thomas Browne

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Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, et al,

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Evelyn paid a visit to Norwich for the express purpose of seeing him; and at length, on his 76th birthday (19th October 1682), he died, full of years and honours.

It was a striking coincidence that he who in his Letter to a Friend had said that "in persons who out- live many years, and when there are no less than 365 days to determine their lives in every year, that the first day should mark the last, that the tail of the snake should return into its mouth precisely at that time, and that they should wind up upon the day of their nativity, is indeed a remarkable coin- cidence, which, though astrology hath taken witty pains to solve, yet hath it been very wary in making predictions of it," should himself die on the day of his birth.

Browne was buried in the church of St Peter, Mancroft, Norwich, where his wife erected to his memory a mural monument, on which was placed an English and Latin inscription, setting forth that he was the author of "Religio Medici," "Pseudodoxia Epidemica," and other learned wo

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Much prefer the one edited by Robin Robbins; but, that may be prejudice on my part because I read that edition first. Anyway, they are both a good read as-long-as you can comprehend the English and the times in which they were written and do not put a modern spin on what you read.
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