In Search Of Sir Thomas Browne

Author : Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847089014

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The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century by Hugh Aldersey-Williams Pdf

A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradictions of life today. Browne has had some impressive fans (Sebald, Woolf, Borges, Poe, Marias) but this book will revive him, bringing his extraordinary genius to a whole new audience.

Author : Reid Barbour
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199679881

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Sir Thomas Browne by Reid Barbour Pdf

Reid Barbour brings the historical evidence of Browne's life together for the first time, allowing readers to contextualise his most celebrated works.

Author : Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393241648

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In Search of Sir Thomas Browne by Hugh Aldersey-Williams Pdf

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."

Author : Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393243116

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In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind by Hugh Aldersey-Williams Pdf

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."

Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108003532283

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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne by Sir Thomas Browne Pdf

Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:10024490

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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne by Sir Thomas Browne Pdf

Author : Simon Wilkin
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : History
ISBN : 9785878813099

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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne by Simon Wilkin Pdf

The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton Urns. a Letter to a Friend, Upon Occasion of the Death of His Intimate Friend. Christian. Domestic Correspondence, Journals, etc.

Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101076781606

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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Supplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IV by Sir Thomas Browne Pdf

Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1097023992

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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Browne Pdf

Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:089554701

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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne by Sir Thomas Browne Pdf

Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018839795

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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Memoirs of Sir Thomas Browne. Domestic correspondence, journals. Miscellaneous correspondence by Sir Thomas Browne Pdf

Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1736
Category : Gardening
ISBN : OXFORD:N11660078

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The Garden of Cyrus.. by Sir Thomas Browne Pdf

Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101079872519

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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence by Sir Thomas Browne Pdf

Author : Edmund 1849-1928 Gosse
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1372780483

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SIR THOMAS BROWNE by Edmund 1849-1928 Gosse Pdf

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Author : Thomas Browne
Publisher : Litres
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040618835

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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 2 by Thomas Browne Pdf