Burton, Robert
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...ROBERT 1577 1640, English clergyman and scholar...he was vicar of St. Thomas, Oxford, and later...work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, appeared in 1621...causes and effects of melancholy, but it eventually...including science, history, and political and...describes various kinds of melancholy; the second puts forward...