Pseudodoxia Epidemica

Browne's three determinants for obtaining truth were the authority of past scholarly works, the act of reason, and empirical experience.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica was a valuable source of information which found itself upon the shelves of many homes in seventeenth century England.

The second of Pseudodoxia Epidemica's seven books entitled Tenets concerning Mineral and Vegetable Bodies includes Browne's experiments with static electricity and magnetism—the word electricity being one of hundreds of neologisms including medical, pathology, hallucination, literary, and computer contributed by Browne into the vocabulary of the early Scientific Revolution.

Pseudodoxia was subsequently translated and published in French, Dutch, Latin and German throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

One lobe of his brain wants to study facts and test hypotheses on the basis of them, the other is fascinated by mystic symbols and analogies.