Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time (My Reading) (PDF)

Name: Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time (My Reading) (PDF)
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The book “Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time” explores the work of Sir Thomas Browne, an English physician and polymath who contributed many words to the English language. The author examines Browne’s work through various themes and argues that it has not lost its power and wisdom. The book is 176 pages long and will be published by Oxford University Press on August 25, 2023.

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Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time (My Reading) (PDF Book)

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Discover the resonance for medic Gavin Francis in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne. Browne (1605-1682) was an English physician, wordsmith, and polymath who contributed hundreds of words to the English language. In this book, Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time, Dr Gavin Francis examines Browne’s work through a variety of themes, including ambiguity, curiosity, piety, humility, misogyny, and mortality. He argues that the work has lost none of its power, wisdom, and beauty. Explore Browne’s Religio Medici, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Urne Buriall, and Museum Clausum and relish the still-accessible eloquence they possess centuries after being written. Drawing on his own experiences as a twenty-first-century writer and doctor, Gavin Francis discovers that he shares fundamental curiosity with Browne about the world and people.