http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#thomas-browne English physician, Christian apologist, experimenter (<a href="needham.html">Needham</a> credits him with some of the first experiments in embryology), believer in witch-craft, collector of oddities and writer of genius, possessed of a style which is almost the opposite of everything rhetors have been recommending for the last few centuries --- polysyllabic, Latinate, elaborate, serpentine, digressive --- which is however carried off with great skill and charm. <ul>Recommended: <li><cite>The Garden of Cyrus, or The Quincuniall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered. With Sundry Observations.</cite> [<a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/gardenf.html">e-text with frames</a>; <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/GardenNoFrames/gardenn.html">without frames</a>] <li><cite><a href="http://dev.library.utoronto.ca/utel/nonfiction/brownet_hyd/hyd_all.html">Hydriotaphia. Urne-buriall, or, A discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately Found in Norfolk</a></cite> [<a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/hydriof.html">e-text with frames</a>; <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/HYDRIONOFRAMES/HYDRION.HTML">without frames</a>] <li><cite>Religio Medici</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li><cite>Pseudodoxia Epidemica; or, Enquiries into Commonly Presumed Truths</cite> [<a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/pseudodoxia.shtml">e-text</a>] </ul>