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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 That Browne, Standin

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Author

Aldersey-Williams, Hugh, author

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393241648

Category

science

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.33 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14