Thursday, July 13, 2017

Some seventeenth-century prose

Sir Thomas Browne’s The Garden of Cyrus (1658) reads the natural world as a network of fives, quincuxes, and decussations, or crossings. I began to think of a companion work:

That Bushmiller hath declared the figure three as equall to somme is not without probability of conjecture.

Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Nancye, or Some Rocks, naturally, artificially, mystically considered (n.d.).
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Some rocks

comments: 2

Frex said...

*happy snort*
Excellent.
--Fresca

Michael Leddy said...

I was a more serious sort when I was a student reading Browne.