Thomas Browne

托马斯·布朗爵士（Sir Thomas Browne；/braʊn/，1605年10月19日—1682年10月19日）是一位英格兰王国的博学家及作家，巴洛克时期英语散文的最伟大的大师之一。

他的作品揭示了他广泛的学习领域，对科学和医学、宗教及西方秘契主义均有贡献。他的作品展示了他对自然世界的深层次好奇心，并且受到培根派科学革命思想的影响。这些作品还经常引用经典和圣经，并且具有自我风格。虽然据说他患有精神忧郁症，他的作品常常具有敏锐的幽默，十分风趣。

延伸阅读

Reid Barbour and Claire Preston (eds), Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed (Oxford, OUP, 2008).

Breathnach, Caoimhghín S. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682). Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. January 2005, 98 (1): 33–6. PMC 1079241. PMID 15632239. doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.1.33.

Mellick, Sam. Sir Thomas Browne: physician 1605–1682 and the Religio Medici. ANZ Journal of Surgery. June 2003, 73 (6): 431–7. PMID 12801344. S2CID 35212182. doi:10.1046/j.1445-2197.2003.t01-1-02646.x.

Hughes, J T. The medical education of Sir Thomas Browne, a seventeenth-century student at Montpellier, Padua, and Leiden. Journal of Medical Biography. May 2001, 9 (2): 70–6. PMID 11304631. S2CID 28583255. doi:10.1177/096777200100900202.

Böttiger, L E. [From Thomas Browne to Dannie Abse. English physicians-writers over four centuries]. Lakartidningen. January 1995, 92 (3): 176–80. PMID 7837855.

Hookman, P. A comparison of the writings of Sir William Osler and his exemplar, Sir Thomas Browne. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 1995, 72 (1): 136–50. PMC 2359421. PMID 7581308.

Dunn, P M. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) and life before birth. Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. January 1994, 70 (1): F75–6. PMC 1060996. PMID 8117135. doi:10.1136/fn.70.1.F75.

Martens, P. The faiths of two doctors: Thomas Browne and William Osler. Perspect. Biol. Med. 1992, 36 (1): 120–8. PMID 1475152. S2CID 38693451. doi:10.1353/pbm.1993.0048.