托馬斯・布朗爵士（Sir Thomas Browne；/braʊn/，1605 年 10 月 19 日 —1682 年 10 月 19 日）是一位英格蘭王國的博學家及作家，巴洛克時期英語散文的最偉大的大師之一。

他的作品揭示了他廣泛的學習領域，對科學和醫學、宗教及西方秘契主義均有貢獻。他的作品展示了他對自然世界的深層次好奇心，並且受到培根派科學革命思想的影響。這些作品還經常引用經典和聖經，並且具有自我風格。雖然據說他患有精神憂鬱症，他的作品常常具有敏銳的幽默，十分風趣。



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* Reid Barbour and Claire Preston (eds), _Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed_ (Oxford, OUP, 2008).

* Breathnach, Caoimhghín S. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682). Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. January 2005, 98 (1): 33–6. PMC 1079241 . PMID 15632239. doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.1.33.

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* Hughes, J T. The medical education of Sir Thomas Browne, a seventeenth-century student at Montpellier, Padua, and Leiden. Journal of Medical Biography. May 2001, 9 (2): 70–6. PMID 11304631. S2CID 28583255. doi:10.1177/096777200100900202.

* Böttiger, L E. [From Thomas Browne to Dannie Abse. English physicians-writers over four centuries]. Lakartidningen. January 1995, 92 (3): 176–80. PMID 7837855.

* Hookman, P. A comparison of the writings of Sir William Osler and his exemplar, Sir Thomas Browne. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 1995, 72 (1): 136–50. PMC 2359421 . PMID 7581308.

* Dunn, P M. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) and life before birth. Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. January 1994, 70 (1): F75–6. PMC 1060996 . PMID 8117135. doi:10.1136/fn.70.1.F75.

* Martens, P. The faiths of two doctors: Thomas Browne and William Osler. Perspect. Biol. Med. 1992, 36 (1): 120–8. PMID 1475152. S2CID 38693451. doi:10.1353/pbm.1993.0048.

* White, H. An introduction to Thomas Browne (1605–1682) and his connections with Winchester College. Journal of Medical Biography. 1988, 6 (2): 120–2. PMID 11620012. S2CID 42967204. doi:10.1177/096777209800600211.

* Wilding, Michael, 'Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987)

* Segall, H N. William Osler and Thomas Browne, a friendship of fifty-two years; Sir Thomas pervades Sir William's library. Korot. 1985, 8 (11–12): 150–65. PMID 11614038.

* Webster, A. Threefold cord of religion, science, and literature in the character of Sir Thomas Browne. BMJ. 1982, 285 (6357): 1801–2. PMC 1500275 . PMID 6816374. doi:10.1136/bmj.285.6357.1801.

* Dirckx, J H. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682). A model for medical humanists. JAMA. October 1982, 248 (15): 1845–7. PMID 6750160. doi:10.1001/jama.248.15.1845.

* Huntley, F L. "Well Sir Thomas?": oration to commemorate the tercentenary of the death of Sir Thomas Browne. BMJ. July 1982, 285 (6334): 43–7. PMC 1499109 . PMID 6805807. doi:10.1136/bmj.285.6334.43.

* Shaw, A B. Sir Thomas Browne: the man and the physician. BMJ. July 1982, 285 (6334): 40–2. PMC 1499136 . PMID 6805806. doi:10.1136/bmj.285.6334.40.

* Schoeck, R J. Sir Thomas Browne and the Republic of Letters: Introduction. English Language Notes. 1982, 19 (4): 299–312. PMID 11616938.

* Geis, G; Bunn I. Sir Thomas Browne and witchcraft: a cautionary tale for contemporary law and psychiatry. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 1981, 4 (1–2): 1–11. PMID 7035381. doi:10.1016/0160-2527(81)90017-0.

* Shaw, A B. Vicary Lecture, 1977. Sir Thomas Browne: the man and the physician. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. July 1978, 60 (4): 336–44. PMC 2492123 . PMID 352233.

* Martin, D C. Sir Thomas Browne 1605–1682. Investigative Urology. May 1976, 13 (6): 449. PMID 773893.

* Buxton, R W. Sir Thomas Browne and the Religio Medici. Surgery, Gynaecology & Obstetrics. December 1970, 131 (6): 1164–70. PMID 4920856.

* Huston, K G. Sir Thomas Browne, Thomas le Gros, and the first edition of Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1646. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. July 1970, 25 (3): 347–8. PMID 4912887. doi:10.1093/jhmas/XXV.3.347.

* Merton, S. Old and new physiology in Sir Thomas Browne: digestion and some other functions. Isis, an International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. 1966, 57 (2): 249–59. PMID 5335398. S2CID 36746296. doi:10.1086/350117.

* Keynes, G. Sir Thomas Browne. BMJ. December 1965, 2 (5477): 1505–10. PMC 1847298 . PMID 5321828. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.5477.1505.

* Doyle, B R. Sir Thomas Browne, Physician And Humanist. McGill Medical Journal. October 1963, 32: 79–83. PMID 14074523.

* Schenk, J M. Psychiatric Aspects of Sir Thomas Browne with a New Evaluation of His Work. Medical History. April 1961, 5 (2): 157–66. PMC 1034604 . PMID 13748180. doi:10.1017/s0025727300026120.

* Finch, J S. The lasting influence of Sir Thomas Browne. Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. August 1956, 24 (2): 59–69. PMID 13360999.

* MacKinnon, M. An unpublished consultation letter of Sir Thomas Browne. Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 1953, 27 (6): 503–11. PMID 13115796.

* Viets, H R. A fragment from Sir Thomas Browne. N. Engl. J. Med. September 1953, 249 (11): 455. PMID 13087622. doi:10.1056/NEJM195309102491107.