Robert Burton (scholar)
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Frontispiece for the 1638 edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
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Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English scholar and vicar at Oxford University, best known for writing The Anatomy of Melancholy.
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