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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
- 9781622317615
- Publisher
- HighBridge
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Reviewed on September 1, 2015 | Audio
Listeners encounter the life story of 17th-century physician, natural philosopher, and gentleman Sir Thomas Browne in the same lyrical and inquisitive manner as he wrote himself. Aldersey-Williams (Anatomies) tells the tale of Browne's life and works with style and grace. Browne is perhaps best known for his Religio Medici (1643) or his Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). He is also well known for coining new terms and phrases and is...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
