Browne traces the quincunx, the five-point pattern, through gardens, art, and nature into the mystical design of the cosmos.
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Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: “It happened to be a small and very lovely edition of Sir Thomas Browne, containing the "Urn Burial," the "Hydriotaphia," and the "Garden of Cyrus," and, opening it at a passage which he knew very nearly by heart, Denham began to read and, for some time, continued to read.”