In search of Sir Thomas Browne : the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind
(Audiobook CD)

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[Prince Frederick, Maryland] : HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books, [2015].
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Unabridged.
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8 audio discs (10 hours) : digital, stereo, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ashland Library
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Published
[Prince Frederick, Maryland] : HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books, [2015].
Format
Audiobook CD
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
UPC
9781622317615

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Compact discs.
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Read by Simon Vance.
Description
"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" --,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Aldersey-Williams, H., & Vance, S. (2015). In search of Sir Thomas Browne: the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind (Unabridged.). HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Aldersey-Williams, Hugh and Simon, Vance. 2015. In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind. HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Aldersey-Williams, Hugh and Simon, Vance. In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books, 2015.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Aldersey-Williams, Hugh,, and Simon Vance. In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind Unabridged., HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books, 2015.

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