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Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Biography

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Hugh Aldersey-Williams is the author of ANATOMIES, PERIODIC TALES, and THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOLECULE, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives in Norfolk, England.

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Books by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind
by Hugh Aldersey-Williams - Biography, History, Nonfiction

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.