In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (671 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393241645 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A cleverly constructed and amusing book, on a subject deserving of fresh attention.” (Jeffrey Collins - Wall Street Journal)“A triumph. “A delightful portrait.” (Jim Holt - New York Times Book Review)“Fascinating…. With luck this fine tribute will bring Browne the wider readership he richly deserves.” (Sunday Herald (UK))“This is just the kind of celebration Sir Thomas Browne needs and deserves: not a conventional biography but a meditation filled with intellectual curiosity, tolerance, humane observation, and gentle wit. It shows Browne as a man caught in the currents of his times while musing on timeless questionsand, like Aldersey-Williams, determined to weigh up the evidence without dogmatism, and to enjoy the richness of the world.” (Philip Ball)“A wonderfully erratic, promenad
"it is still a very good read and very informative about a figure who hasn't" according to Alcofribas Nasier. Okay. This is very informative. But you have to dig through lots of precious writing to get to the information. The author thinks it will make the book -- I dunno, charming? warmer? -- to throw in narratives of his own. So he goes on about bicycling . Thomas Browne's adventures in the 21st century If you've lived with a favorite author for a while, read him or her until the writer's voice in your ear became almost an alter ego, you can imagine what prompted Hugh Aldersey-Williams to write this book. As he says himself, this may not be the most. Excavating a Seventeenth Century Prose Writer of Genius Steve Harvy Sittenreich The charm and skill of this book cleverly leads the willing reader into a profound and wonderful discussion of the eminent seventeenth century author Sir Thomas Browne who fascinated such later writers as Dr Johnson, the English Romantics, and, above
He lives in Norfolk, England. . Hugh Aldersey-Williams is the author of many books, including Anatomies, Periodic Tales, and The Most Beautiful Molecule, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The extraordinary life and ideas of one of the greatestand most neglectedminds 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. Aldersey-Williams reveals how Browne’s preoccupationshow to disabuse the credulous of their foolish beliefs, what to make of order in nature, how to unite science and religionare relevant today.In Search of Sir Thomas Browne is more than just a biographyit 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. In an intellectual adventure like Sarah Bakewell's book about Montaigne, How to Live, Hugh Aldersey-Williams sets off n