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Born October 19, 1605 • LondonEngland
Died October 19, 1682 (aged 77) • NorwichEngland
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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