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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITAIN
 
  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
Thomas Browne

(1605–82, kt 1671)
Physician and writer, whose enquiring mind and rotundity of phrase ('Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth, and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives') have at all times won him faithful readers. His best-known works are Religio Medici (1642), an account of his religious convictions and personal philosophy; and Urn Burial (1658), in which the discovery of some funerary urns in Norfolk leads him into a wide-ranging discussion of burial practices and of death itself.
 








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