The Works of the Learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt. Doctor of Physick, Late of Norwich. Containing: I. Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors. II. Religio Medici: With Annotations and Observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-burial: Together with The Garden of Cyrus. IV. Certain Miscellany Tracts. With Alphabetical Tables

Brown, Sir Thomas; Thomas Browne

Verlag: Printed for Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Tho. Sawbridge, Charles Mearn, and Charles Brome, London, 1686

[The First English Collection of Browne's Works] Folio, 34 cm. Bound in contemporary full calf. Front board detached, rear board starting. Hardcover. [20], 316, [26], 102, [8], 52, [6], 68, 99-103, [5] pages : illustrations, portrait. Title page in red and black; ornaments on some title pages; initials; head-pieces. First collected edition; each part has special title page and separate paging; "Religio medici" has imprint date 1685; "Annotations upon Religio medici" and "Observations upon Religio medici" also have special title pages with date 1686Text continuous despite pagination. Contents: Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths . The seventh and last edition; Religio medici. . With Annotations upon all the obscure passages therein. Also Observations by Sir Kenelm Digby; Hydriotaphia, urn-burial, or, A discourse of the sepulchral urns lately found in Norfolk. Together with The garden of Cyrus, or the quincuncial, lozenge, or net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considered; Certain miscellany tracts. Browne was an important neologist. The OED cites him 775 times for the first usage of a word, and he is quoted in 4131 entries of first evidence of a word, and 1596 times as first evidence of a particular meaning of a word. Examples of his coinages include: 'ambidextrous', 'antediluvian', 'analogous', 'approximate', 'ascetic', 'anomalous', 'carnivorous', 'coexistence', 'coma', 'compensate', 'computer' (Used in Pseudodoxia epidemic by Browne in 1646), 'cryptography', 'cylindrical', 'disruption', 'electricity', 'exhaustion', 'ferocious', 'follicle', 'generator', 'gymnastic', 'hallucination', 'herbaceous', 'holocaust', 'insecurity', 'indigenous', 'jocularity', 'literary', 'locomotion', 'medical', 'migrant', 'mucous', 'prairie', 'prostate', 'polarity', 'precocious', 'pubescent', 'therapeutic', 'suicide' (first coined by Browne in Religio medici), 'ulterior', 'ultimate' and 'veterinarian'. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2507310004

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Titel: The Works of the Learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt...
Verlag: Printed for Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Tho. Sawbridge, Charles Mearn, and Charles Brome, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1686
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Fair