Talk:Thomas Browne

message: :  Welcome aboard! Feel free to add at will to the Thomas Browne and Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial articles, and to start new ones for his works that are still in the red.  I took the liberty of making it so that your links would show up as linkable. -- IHCOYC 20:13 May 6, 2003 (UTC)
Why is the word 'curious' invariably, along with 'quaint' applied to Sir T.B.'s learning ?  It is both Hermetic AND early inductive method of scientific enquiry based learning which Browne represents. Nothing curious there at all, just a clash of ancient and modern. Norwikian
:From one point of view, just about anything that has to do with Hermeticism probably qualifies as "curious", if not "quaint."  A lot of it has to do with contemporary reactions to the relics of scholastic reasoning from ancient authority that you do find in Browne.  But when you move into discussions of gryphons, phoenixes, and unicorns, this sort of material would seem to me to qualify by most people's definitions.  IHCOYC 03:46 30 May 2003 (UTC)
Many thanks IHCOYC for adding links to my article, by the way Browne published 2 Discourses in 1658 which have a close and intimate relationship to each other. To discuss them without reference to each other, as was the trend of the Victorians is completely erroneous. They were written as mirrors to each a fact which was not fully acknowledged until 1962 by Professor Huntley, just take a look at the polarities they contain in theme, imagery and symbolism . If you are interested in my interpretation check out the paper I delivered at the University of East Anglia last year at www.levity.alchemy. sir_thomas_browne 
What Browne attempts to do in Pseudodoxia is to dispel popular 'vulgar errors' that Unicorns, Gryphons etc. etc. exist, in no way does he endorse their existence but attempts to prove by REASON and EXPERIENCE that these creatures DO NOT EXIST. As a pencilled remark in a book on Browne in Austin Uni. Texas states 'Jesus H.Christ can't anyone write about Browne without using this word!'(quaint)13:47 May 31 Norwikian
Hi IHCOYC ! I took out the duplication of the word 'curious'. I think I've read elsewhere the phrase 'curious learning and melancholia'. Actually Sir T.B. is a much a humourist, if you read him than melancholic yet another 19th c. received information perception which i am battling to eliminateNorwikian 20:38, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)
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message: these are images of Thomas Browne's marble (plaque on the wall) in IInd chamber of Winchester College.
I am not sure if they are interesting enough to put in the main article - could someone please advise
Gingekerr 22:16, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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message: User:Hydrotaphias edit was valid, the sentence is POV and does not credit the origin of the POV and the Dr Johnson line is amngled snetence. GraemeLeggett 11:47, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's OK with me, now that you explained it. Cheers, Ghirla | talk 09:49, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV, grammar 

message: I was cleaning up the orphan article list and came across Sir Thomas Browne on America; its practically an orphan, is not well formatted, and is only linked to this article in a see also.  If Browne's observations on America are interesting, wouldn't it be better to locate them as a section in this article? Thatcher131 01:32, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Sir Thomas Browne on America]] 

message: 'It was his citation of a parallel case in Denmark that seemed to confirm the guilt of the accused, in the minds of the Jury.[2] . Two women were found guilty and executed for the crime of witchcraft, and the record of this trial was used by the magistrates at the Salem witch trials to prove the acceptability in court of spectral evidence. Discuss further the logic of this statement and its continued received prejudice.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.145.118 (talk) 14:15, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What prejudice -  obviously you received some so please do let me know. Me I came across three (3) records that he attended the trial and his input was such that it was worthy of note in both the witch trial and his entry to wikipedia. Please do input referenced statements that he did not attend the trial or make a link to a trial in Denmark. Edmund Patrick ( confer  work) 18:21, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
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message: Pseudodoxia Epidemica says the 2nd book includes Browne's experiments with static electricity and magnetism. What did he do ? anything new ?, and what was the significance of his experiments ? Does he deserve to be called an English scientist ? - Rod57 (talk) 15:30, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
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message: The references are (not) consistently formatted at present, but/and I want to use the Harvard system when working on the article, which I intend to raise to GA level. Please comment if you have any objection. Amitchell125 (talk) 17:05, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a year on, so I will now be going ahead with reorganising the references so that there is a consistent format. Amitchell125 (talk) 17:36, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
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