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Author : Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847089021
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century written by Hugh Aldersey-Williams and published by . This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393241645
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book In Search of Sir Thomas Browne written by Hugh Aldersey-Williams and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199640432
Total Pages : 1057 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Thomas Browne written by Sir Thomas Browne and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, the edition demonstrates the breadth of the author of some of the most brilliant and delirious prose in English Literature. Lauded by writers ranging from Coleridge to Virginia Woolf, from Borges to W.G. Sebald, Browne's distinct style and the musicality of his phrasing have long been seen as a pinnacle of early modern prose. However, it is Browne's range of subject matter that makes him truly distinct. His writings include the hauntingly meditative Urn-Burial, and the elaborate The Garden of Cyrus, a work that borders on a madness of infinite pattern. Religio Medici, probably Browne's most famous work, is at once autobiography, intricate religious-scientific paradox, and a monument of tolerance in the era of the English civil war. This volume also includes his Pseudodoxia Epidemica, an encyclopaedia of error which contains within its vast remit the entire intellectual landscape of the seventeenth century-its science, its natural history, its painting, its history, its geography and its biblical oddities. The volume enables students to experience the ways in which Browne brings his lucid, baroque and stylish prose to bear across this range of diverse material, together with a carefully poised wit. This volume contains almost all of the author's work that was published in his lifetime, as well as a selection of writings published after his death. Explanatory notes and commentary are included, to enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the life and works of Browne.
Author : Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393243117
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind written by Hugh Aldersey-Williams and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Author : Reid Barbour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199679886
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Sir Thomas Browne written by Reid Barbour and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reid Barbour brings the historical evidence of Browne's life together for the first time, allowing readers to contextualise his most celebrated works.
Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Garden of Cyrus.. written by Sir Thomas Browne and published by . This book was released on 1736 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reid Barbour
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191553093
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Sir Thomas Browne written by Reid Barbour and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. To understand the period which we more usually refer to as the Civil War, the Restoration, or the Scientific Revolution, we need to understand parts of the intellectual and spiritual background that are often neglected and which Browne magnificently figures forth. This collection of essays about all aspects of Thomas Browne's work and thought is the first such volume to appear in 25 years. It offers the specialist and the student a wide-ranging array of essays by an international team of leading scholars in seventeenth-century literary studies who extend our understanding of this extremely influential and representative early-modern polymath by embracing recent developments in the field, including literary-scientific relations, the development of Anglican spirituality, civil networks of intellectual exchange, the rise of antiquarianism, and Browne's own legacy in modern literature.
Author : Sir Edmund Gosse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sir Thomas Browne written by Sir Edmund Gosse and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Browne
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019659304
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (593 download)
Download or read book Sir Thomas Browne's Works written by Thomas Browne and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of works by Sir Thomas Browne, a 17th-century English author and physician. It includes his major works, such as 'Religio Medici' and 'Urn Burial', as well as his correspondence and other writings. The book is an essential read for anyone interested in the literature and philosophy of the early modern period. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Thomas Browne
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022464674
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (646 download)
Download or read book Sir Thomas Browne's Works written by Thomas Browne and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes the works of Sir Thomas Browne, a writer of the 17th century, along with his life and correspondence. Browne's writing style is considered baroque and often explores themes of religion, science, and medicine. The collection is a great addition to any literature lover's library. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Works of Sir Thomas Browne written by Sir Thomas Browne and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : sir Thomas Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin written by sir Thomas Browne and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Thomas
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0804152144
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Rivers of Gold written by Hugh Thomas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition, greed, religious fanaticism, court intrigue, and a battle for the soul of humankind. Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. Her monarchs, Fernando and Isabel, had retaken Granada from Islam, thereby completing restoration of the entire Iberian peninsula to Catholic rule. Flush with success, they agreed to sponsor an obscure Genoese sailor’s plan to sail west to the Indies, where, legend purported, gold and spices flowed as if they were rivers. For Spain and for the world, this decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal—the dividing line between the medieval and the modern. Spain’s colonial adventures began inauspiciously: Columbus’s meagerly funded expedition cost less than a Spanish princess’s recent wedding. In spite of its small scale, it was a mission of astounding scope: to claim for Spain all the wealth of the Indies. The gold alone, thought Columbus, would fund a grand Crusade to reunite Christendom with its holy city, Jerusalem. The lofty aspirations of the first explorers died hard, as the pursuit of wealth and glory competed with the pursuit of pious impulses. The adventurers from Spain were also, of course, curious about geographical mysteries, and they had a remarkable loyalty to their country. But rather than bridging earth and heaven, Spain’s many conquests bore a bitter fruit. In their search for gold, Spaniards enslaved “Indians” from the Bahamas and the South American mainland. The eloquent protests of Bartolomé de las Casas, here much discussed, began almost immediately. Columbus and other Spanish explorers—Cortés, Ponce de León, and Magellan among them—created an empire for Spain of unsurpassed size and scope. But the door was soon open for other powers, enemies of Spain, to stake their claims. Great men and women dominate these pages: cardinals and bishops, priors and sailors, landowners and warriors, princes and priests, noblemen and their determined wives. Rivers of Gold is a great story brilliantly told. More significant, it is an engrossing history with many profound—often disturbing—echoes in the present.
Author : Reid Barbour
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191669482
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Sir Thomas Browne written by Reid Barbour and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Thomas Browne: A Life is the first full-scale biography of the extraordinary prose artist, physician, and polymath. With the help of recent archival discoveries, the biography recasts each phase of Browne's life (1605-82) and situates his incomparable writings within the diverse intellectual and social contexts in which he lived, including London, Winchester, Oxford, Montpellier, Padua, Leiden, Halifax, and Norwich. The book makes the case that, as his contemporaries fervently believed, Browne influenced the intellectual and religious direction of seventeenth-century England in singularly rich and dynamic ways. Special attention is paid in the biography to Browne's medical vocation but also to his place within the scientific revolution. New information is offered regarding his childhood in London, his European travels and medical studies, the setting in which he first wrote Religio Medici, his impact on readers during the English civil wars, and the contemporary view of his medical practice. Overall, the image of Browne that emerges is far bolder and more cosmopolitan, less complacent and provincial, than biographers have assumed ever since Samuel Johnson doubted Browne's claim that his life up to age thirty resembled a romantic fiction filled with miracles and fables. The biography has extensive material for anyone interested in the histories of religion, education, science and medicine, seventeenth-century England, and early modern philosophy and literature.
Author : Thomas Browne
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020765384
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Edited by Charles Sayle; Volume 3 written by Thomas Browne and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Thomas Browne was a 17th-century physician and writer whose works are considered masterpieces of English prose. This volume collects all of Browne's major writings, including Religio Medici and Urn Burial, along with a selection of lesser-known works. Edited by Charles Sayle, this edition provides valuable context and analysis for Browne's often difficult and intricate prose. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard Todd
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047425057
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book “A man very well studyed”: New Contexts for Thomas Browne written by Richard Todd and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, scholarship on Thomas Browne (1605-1682) saw him as tangential to his period’s thought and writing: an obscure and quaint stylist, detached from the turbulence of mid-seventeenth century England. This volume contributes to the current reevalution of Browne’s involvement in his times: identifying his political commitments, milieu, reading, and readers. The essays collected in this volume place Browne’s works in unexpected contexts – in Holland, Poland and Germany, in Restoration politics, in publishing history and medical theory. It presents new research into his reputation in the later seventeenth century, his manuscripts, medical dissertation, association with the Hartlib circle and habits of revision. Essays on familiar works place them in new light, while readings of his letters, notebooks, and lesser works broaden our understanding of Browne as a writer. The result is a fuller picture of Browne’s significance in seventeenth-century European culture. Contributors include: Eric Achermann, Hugh Adlington, Reid Barbour, Harm Beukers, Siobhán Collins, Louise Denmead, Karen Edwards, Doris Einsiedel, Kevin Killeen, Mary Ann Lund, Philip Major, Antonia Moon, Kathryn Murphy, Brent Nelson, and Claire Preston.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Sir Thomas Browne written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
