In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind
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...
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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,
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780393241648 (0393241645)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English