An edition of In search of Sir Thomas Browne (2015)

In search of Sir Thomas Browne

the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind

First American edition.
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An edition of In search of Sir Thomas Browne (2015)

In search of Sir Thomas Browne

the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind

First American edition.
  • 4 Want to read

"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, standing at the very gates of modern science, remains an inquiring mind for our own time. As Stephen Greenblatt has written, Browne is "unnervingly one of our most adventurous contemporaries" --

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Language
English
Pages
330

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Table of Contents

Prologue
Introduction
Biography
Physic
Animals
Plants
Science
Tolerance
Faith
Melancholy
Objects
The end
Timelines
Major works of Thomas Browne
References and further reading.

Edition Notes

"Originally published in Great Britain under the title The adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st century" -- Verso title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
828/.409, B
Library of Congress
PR3327 .A88 2015, PR3327 A88 2015, PR3327A88 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 330 pages
Number of pages
330

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27182936M
Internet Archive
insearchofsirtho0000alde
ISBN 13
9780393241648
LCCN
2015010241
OCLC/WorldCat
891611145

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