In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind

by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

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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,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0393241645

ISBN13:9780393241648

Release Date:June 2015

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.51 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"

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