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In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind
By Aldersey-Williams, Hugh
- ISBN
- 9780393241648 9780393243116
- Publisher
- Norton
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Reviewed on May 1, 2015 | Science and Technology
Aldersey-Williams (Anatomies) thinks readers should familiarize themselves with the writings of Sir Thomas Browne (1605–82). And understandably so, since Browne remains relatively unknown, yet offers some of the poignancy of Montaigne, the expressive creativity of language of Shakespeare, the skeptical tolerance of a modern, and the empirical outlook of a scientist. The author suggests that Browne has relevance ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
