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Title
Homage to Sir Thomas Browne
Date
2005–2007
Medium
stone & granite
Accession number
NR2_RHT_S149
Acquisition method
commissioned by Commissions East and Funded by Arts Council England East Norwich City Council Norfolk County Council
Work type
Sculpture
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
3rd July 2007
Access
at all times
Inscription description
on eye: MEMORABILIA; on benches: URNE BURRIALS / VULGAR ERRORS; on low tables: RELIGIO MEDICI / GARDEN OF CYRUS; on lozenges: AMPHIBIUM / BRAMPTON URNS. These refer to Sir Thomas's major publications: Religio Medici (best understood as: the Christian Beliefs of a Doctor), his most famous book, was written in 1636 and published in authorised form in 1643; Vulgar errors is the common title for 'Pseudodoxia epidemica or enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths', published in 1646; Hydriotaphia, the original title of Urne Burials, was published in 1658 together with The Garden of Cyrus. (The most accessible modern edition is that by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Sir Thomas Browne Selected Writings, London, 1968)