Author:Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne
(1605–1682)

Thomas Browne

Works

Major works

• Religio Medici (1643)
• Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)
• The Garden of Cyrus (1658)
• A Letter to a Friend (1656)
• Brampton Urns (1667)
• Christian Morals (1670s)
• Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646–72)

Shorter writings

• Commonplace notebooks
• Medical Observations
• On Dreams
• On Bubbles
• On Tobacco
• On Echoes
• Observations on frogs
• Observations on eggs
• On fossil remains in Norfolk
• Account of a thunderstorm
• Upon the darke thick miste
• On Arthur Dee
• 'An Account of Birds found in Norfolk' (Wilkin ed. 1835, vol. 4, p. 313f. external scan)
• Notes and letters on the natural history of Norfolk: More especially on the birds and fishes From the MSS. of Sir Thomas Browne, M.D.; with notes by Thomas Southwell. London : Jarrold & Sons (1902). (external scan)

• Translation of Latin originals
  • To a friend intending a difficult work
  • To an illustrious friend on his wearisome Chatterer
  • From a reading of Athenaeus
  • Notes on Cookery of the ancients
  • The Sea-fight

Works about Browne

• "Browne, Sir Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Browne, Sir Thomas," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Browne, Thomas (1605-1682)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• Sir Thomas Browne by Edmund Gosse (1905) (external scan)
• review of Southwell (ed.) Notes and letters on the natural history of Norfolk (1902) in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 6, issue 728 (February, 1902), p. 78/9 (see also: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 5, issue 720 (June, 1901), p. 237)