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020			_a0393241645 _qhardcover
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099			_aBrowne, _aT. _aA362
100	1		_aAldersey-Williams, Hugh, _eauthor. _9189327
240	1	0	_aAdventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st century
245	1	0	_aIn search of Sir Thomas Browne : _bthe life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind / _cHugh Aldersey-Williams.
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York ; _aLondon : _bW.W. Norton & Company, _c2015.
300			_axx, 330 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"Originally published in Great Britain under the title The adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st century" -- Verso title page.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPrologue -- Introduction -- Biography -- Physic -- Animals -- Plants -- Science -- Tolerance -- Faith -- Melancholy -- Objects -- The end -- Timelines -- Major works of Thomas Browne -- References and further reading.
520			_a"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" -- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aBrowne, Thomas, _cSir, _d1605-1682 _xCriticism and interpretation. _9279026
600	1	0	_aBrowne, Thomas, _cSir, _d1605-1682. _9279027
650		0	_aAuthors, English _y17th century _vBiography. _9279028
650		0	_aIntellectuals _zEngland _vBiography. _9279029
650		0	_aPhysicians _zEngland _vBiography. _9270547
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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997			_aBrowne, T. A362
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