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Superstitions & Folk Belief

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science

by Claire Preston

A literary and historical study of how Browne's prose works handle evidence, observation and classification. Preston reads Pseudodoxia Epidemica as part of the collaborative culture of early modern natural history rather than as a simple attack on superstition.

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