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**The extraordinary life and ideas of one of the greatest―and most neglected―minds in history.** Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. In an intellectual adventure like Sarah Bakewell's book about Montaigne, __How to Live__, Hugh Aldersey-Williams sets off not just to tell the story of Browne's life but to champion his skeptical nature and inquiring mind. Mixing botany, etymology, medicine, and literary history, Aldersey-Williams journeys in his hero's footsteps to introduce us to witches, zealots, natural wonders, and fabulous creatures of Browne's time and ours. We meet Browne the master prose stylist, responsible for introducing hundreds of words into English, including __electricity__, __hallucination__, and __suicide__. Aldersey-Williams reveals how Browne’s preoccupations―how to disabuse the credulous of their foolish beliefs, what to make of order in nature, how to unite science and religion―are relevant today. __In Search of Sir Thomas Browne__ is more than just a biography―it is a cabinet of wonders and an argument t

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Author

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393243116

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.33 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14