Thomas Browne: The Garden of Cyrus

Cover: 9788027382200 | The Garden of Cyrus | Thomas Browne | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023

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Published in 1658 as a companion to Urn Burial, The Garden of Cyrus is Thomas Browne's dazzling meditation on the quincunx-the five-point pattern found in gardens, nets, seeds, plantations, and celestial arrangements. Moving from ancient horticulture to natural history and metaphysical speculation, Browne transforms a seemingly modest geometric figure into an emblem of cosmic order. Its prose is richly Latinate, digressive, and baroque, situated between Renaissance encyclopedism and early modern scientific inquiry. Sir Thomas Browne, physician, antiquarian, and author of Religio Medici, brought to the work a mind equally trained in observation, classical learning, and devotional wonder. Living in seventeenth-century Norwich, he wrote at a moment when Baconian experiment, biblical interpretation, and inherited hermetic traditions still overlapped. The Garden of Cyrus reflects this intellectual world: empirical curiosity repeatedly opens into symbolic pattern, suggesting a universe legible to the patient and learned observer. Readers drawn to the history of ideas, early modern prose, or literature that makes thought itself sensuous will find this brief work inexhaustibly suggestive. It rewards slow reading, offering not argument alone but a cultivated experience of perception.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Deutscher Idealismus
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788027382200
ISBN-10:	8027382203
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Browne, Thomas
Hersteller:	e-artnow
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	e-artnow s.r.o., Za Sidlistem 22, ?-143 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 3 mm
Von/Mit:	Thomas Browne
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.05.2023
Gewicht:	0,075 kg