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In Search of Sir Thomas Browne - The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind (Hardcover)
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In Search of Sir Thomas Browne - The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind (Hardcover)
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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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