Thomas browne

In 1646, Sir Thomas Browne wanted to rid the world of a vast range of false beliefs -- that elephants have no knees, that beavers bite off their testicles to avoid capture, that garlic disempowers magnets, and so on and on. Browne's problem was that he had no simple way of describing what he was doing.

A local Historical character in Norwich Sir Thomas Browne was a polymath who was born in London but moved to Norwich in his later years, he wrote such things as Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia Urn Burial , Pseudodoxia Epidemica and ETC. He died at the grand age of 77 which is pretty good for 17th century standards. this is my 4th version of Browne on art-station but is actually my 5th one cause I made one before joining art-station.

“A man very well studyed”: New Contexts for Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne and the craniokleptic impulse

Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1st Baronet RA (1735-1811) — Thomas "Sense" Browne, c.1775 : The Yale Center for British Art at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. USA (608x1024)