Sir Thomas Browne

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Born	October 19, 1605 • London • England
Died	October 19, 1682 (aged 77) • Norwich • England
Notable Works	“Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk” • “Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into Very many received Tenets, and commonly presumed truths” • “Religio Medici” • “The Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunciall Lozenge, or Net-Work Plantations of the Ancients”

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