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Thomas and Browne
* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )
The amphisbaena has been referred to by the poets, such as Nicander, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and A. E. Housman, and the amphisbaena as a mythological and legendary creature has been referenced by Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, and Thomas Browne, the last of whom debunked its existence.
Browne Willis built a mansion in 1711, but this was pulled down by Thomas Harrison, who had acquired the property in 1793.
His reputation among Protestants was at the time so bad that he was charged by Thomas Browne in 1643 with the authorship of the legendary-apocryphal heretical treatise De tribus Impostoribus, as well as with having carried his alleged approval of polygamy into practice.
The English physician and philosopher, Sir Thomas Browne, specifically employed the word encyclopaedia for the first time in English as early as 1646 in the preface to the reader to describe his Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, a series of refutations of common errors of his age.
Bacon's ideas were influential in the 1630s and 1650s among scholars, in particular Sir Thomas Browne, who in his encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 – 1672 ) frequently adheres to a Baconian approach to his scientific enquiries.
An early recorded lucid dreamer was the philosopher and physician Sir Thomas Browne ( 1605 – 1682 ).
Sir Thomas Browne, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, ch.
" Other major melancholic authors include Sir Thomas Browne, and Jeremy Taylor, whose Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Holy Living and Holy Dying, respectively, contain extensive meditations on death.
* 1605 – Thomas Browne, English writer ( d. 1682 )
The early modern English prose of Sir Thomas Browne is probably the most frequently quoted source of neologisms in the completed dictionary.
" As a word it originates from Thomas Browne in his book Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
In his 1658 discourse The Garden of Cyrus, Sir Thomas Browne, pursuing the figure of the quincunx, queried:
Thomas Young's work is acknowledged in Champollion's 1822 Lettre à M. Dacier, but incompletely, according to British critics: for example, James Browne, a sub-editor on the Encyclopædia Britannica ( which had published Young's 1819 article ), contributed anonymously a series of review articles to the Edinburgh Review in 1823, praising Young's work highly and alleging that the " unscrupulous " Champollion plagiarised it.
Among them were the astronomer Tycho Brahe, the chemical physician Paracelsus, the Irish philosopher Robert Boyle, and the English philosophers Thomas Browne and Isaac Newton.
* 1808 – 1814 Thomas Browne
* October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne English physician and philosopher ( d. 1682 )
* 1658: The Psyche, or soul, of Tiresias is of the masculine gender — Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia.
* May 1 – Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus are published by Thomas Browne.
* October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne English author, physician, and philosopher ( b. 1605 )
Such beliefs were examined wittily and at length in 1646 by Sir Thomas Browne in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
The English physician and author Sir Thomas Browne speculated upon the interrelated workings of optics and the camera obscura in his 1658 discourse The Garden of Cyrus thus:
In the 17th century the English physician Sir Thomas Browne wrote a short tract upon the interpretation of dreams.
* 1646 — Sir Thomas Browne first uses the word electricity is in his work Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
* Sir Thomas Browne: Of the Picture describing the death of Cleopatra ( 1672 )

Thomas and Pseudodoxia
This association gave rise to the English words " electric " and " electricity ", which made their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646.
The word " locust " has, at times, been employed controversially in English translations of Ancient Greek and Latin natural histories, as well as of Hebrew and Greek Bibles ; such ambiguous renderings prompted the 17th-century polymath Thomas Browne to include in the Fifth Book of his Pseudodoxia Epidemica an essay entitled Of the Picture of a Grasshopper, it begins:
The Alphabeticall Table ( an index ) to the 1658 edition of Sir Thomas Browne's encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica includes the entry, ' Philosopher's Stone, not impossible to be procured '.
* Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors-Sir Thomas Browne
* Sir Thomas Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors
Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths, also known simply as Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, is a work by Thomas Browne refuting the common errors and superstitions of his age.
Unheard-of Curiosities was one of 1, 500 books in the Library of Sir Thomas Browne and one of the varied sources of his encyclopaedia entitled Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
* Dr Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica is published in London, introducing the words electricity, medical, pathology, hallucination and computer to the English language and casting doubt on the theory of spontaneous generation.
The first usage of the English word electricity is ascribed to Sir Thomas Browne in his 1646 work, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
Thomas Browne affirmed the stone's application to obstetrics in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1672 ), but doubted the story about eagles.
* Note to Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III. 28
The word first appears in English in the mid-17th century ( used in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1646 ), where it is an adaptation of Late Latin rhabdomantia, from a presumed ( unrecorded ) ancient Greek * rhabdomanteia, from the ancient Greek ῥαβδος ( rhabdos ) a rod.

Thomas and notes
The translation, as literary critics claim, was not based on Cervantes ' text but mostly upon a French work by Filleau de Saint-Martin and upon notes which Thomas Shelton had written previously.
* Kainam Thomas Wong: Statistical Signal Processing lecture notes at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
William York Tindall, in his 1962 study, A Reader's Guide to Dylan Thomas, finds comparison between Thomas ' and Joyce's wordplay, while he notes the themes of rebirth and nature are common to the works of Lawrence and Thomas.
Additionally, in an article for Cryptozoology, A. C. Thomas notes that even if there were some truth to the story, it could be explained rationally as an encounter with a walrus or similar creature that had swum up the river.
Norman Doe notes that St. Germain's view " is essentially Thomist ," quoting Thomas Aquinas's definition of law as " an ordinance of reason made for the common good by him who has charge of the community, and promulgated.
Michael Neill, editor of the Oxford Shakespeare edition, notes that the earliest critical references to Othello's colour, ( Thomas Rymer's 1693 critique of the play, and the 1709 engraving in Nicholas Rowe's edition of Shakespeare ), assume him to be Sub-Saharan, while the earliest known North African interpretation was not until Edmund Kean's production of 1814.
Another author, Thomas Geoghegan, whose speciality is labour rights, comes down on the side of Herodotus when it comes to drawing lessons relevant to Americans, who, he notes, tend to be rather isolationist in their habits ( if not in their political theorizing ): " We should also spend more funds to get our young people out of the library where they're reading Thucydides and get them to start living like Herodotus — going out and seeing the world.
Economist Thomas DiLorenzo notes that Senator Sherman sponsored the 1890 William McKinley tariff just three months after the Sherman Act, and agrees with The New York Times which wrote on October 1, 1890: " That so-called Anti-Trust law was passed to deceive the people and to clear the way for the enactment of this Pro-Trust law relating to the tariff.
A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637 / Written by Major John Mason, a principal actor therein, as then chief captain and commander of Connecticut forces ; With an introduction and some explanatory notes by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Prince ( Boston: Printed & sold by.
A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637 / Written by Major John Mason, a principal actor therein, as then chief captain and commander of Connecticut forces ; With an introduction and some explanatory notes by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Prince ( Boston: Printed & sold by.
He illustrated with notes several of the classics which he printed, and was the author of numerous pieces, amongst which are a life of Thomas a Kempis, and a satire on the follies of women, entitled Navicula Stultarum Mulierum.
* Elizabethan Authors: Thomas Nash, Summer's Last Will and Testament on-line text and notes
This story is repeated uncritically in some later histories, and subsequently " Malgo the Briton " is mentioned in Thomas Stephens ' notes on an 1888 publication of Y Gododdin, with the stated suggestion that Maelgwn was an ally of " Aeddan " against the Pictish king Bridei.
According to the field notes of Thomas White, who surveyed the Hamilton County regions in 1825, the Jennings area was rich in fertile soil, but was sparsely populated.
Cavendish may also, as O ’ Neill notes, have been influenced through social encounters with philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes.
Biblical scholar Craig A. Evans also ascribes to this view and notes that " Over half of the New Testament writings are quoted, paralleled, or alluded to in Thomas ...
Klyne Snodgrass notes that saying 65 – 66 of Thomas containing the Parable of the Wicked Tenants appears to be dependent on the early harmonisation of Mark and Luke found in the old Syriac gospels.
While no evidence had been found against " Thomas ", who only had a reputation as a minor thief, some of the identifiable bank notes had been traced back to him through friends who had been charged with receiving.
As the news spread " the studio was paralyzed with shock ," notes Thomas.
Thomas notes that among the reasons Fitzgerald chose to write a book about a Thalberg-like character, was that " throughout his literary career, Fitzgerald borrowed his heroes from friends he admired, and inevitably a bit of Fitzgerald entered the characterizations.
During this period the group made a cameo appearance in the film Mystery Men as the " Not So Goodie Mob ", with Cee-Lo crediting himself by his birth name, Thomas Callaway ( though he refers to himself as " Carlito Green " in the liner notes ).
However, Rachel Bromwich notes that such an identification has little to back it ; other writers, such as Thomas Stephens and William Forbes Skene, identify Flamdwyn instead with Ida's son Theodric, noting the passages in the genealogies discussing Theodric's battles with Urien and his sons.
He had previously entrusted notes and emendations on Shakespeare to Sir Thomas Hanmer, whose unauthorized use of them led to a heated controversy.

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