Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Abbreviations -- Notes on the Editors -- List of Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- 'Between the Paws of a Sphinx': The Contexts of Thomas Browne (Kathryn Murphy) -- PART I BROWNE IN LEIDEN -- Discipline and Praxis: Thomas Browne in Leiden (Reid Barbour) -- Studying Medicine in Leiden in the 1630s (Harm Beukers) -- 'A Fresh Reading of Books': Some Note-Taking Practices of Thomas Browne (Antonia Moon) -- PART II READING AND WRITING -- Divination in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Thomas Browne's Habits of Revision (Hugh Adlington) -- PART III FORM, MATTER, AND REFORM -- Curious Readers and Meditative Form in Thomas Browne's Urne-Buriall (Brent Nelson) -- 'There is all Africa [. . .] within us': Language, Generation and Alchemy in Browne's Explication of Blackness (Siobhan Collins and Louise Denmead) -- Of Cyder and Sallets: The Hortulan Saints and The Garden of Cyrus (Claire Preston) -- PART IV THE TURBULENCE OF THE TIME -- 'In the Time of the Late Civil Wars': Post-Restoration Browne and the Political Memory of Repertorium (Kevin Killeen) -- Urne-Buriall and the Interregnum Royalist (Philip Major) -- Thomas Browne and the Absurdities of Melancholy (Karen L. Edwards) -- PART V READING AND TRANSLATING BROWNE -- The Christian Physician: Thomas Browne and the Role of Religion in Medical Practice (Mary Ann Lund) -- Order in the Vortex: Christian Knorr von Rosenroth as Compiler and Translator of Thomas Browne, Jean d'Espagnet, Henry More, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Antoine le Grand (Eric Achermann (Trans. Kathryn Murphy and Doris Einsiedel)) -- 'The Best Pillar of the Order of Sir Francis': Thomas Browne, Samuel Hartlib and Communities of Learning (Kathryn Murphy) -- Bibliography -- Index Nominum.