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In Search of Sir Thomas Browne
- The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind
- Written by: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone form Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. In an intellectual adventure akin to Sarah Bakewell's book on Montaigne, How to Live, Hugh Aldersey-Williams sets off not just to tell the story of Browne's life but also to champion his skeptical nature and inquiring mind for our own age.
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In Search of Sir Thomas Browne
- The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-15
- Language: English
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Periodic Tales
- The Curious Lives of the Elements
- Written by: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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Everything in the universe is made of them, including you. Like you, the elements have personalities, attitudes, talents, shortcomings, stories rich with meaning. Here you'll meet iron that rains from the heavens and noble gases that light the way to vice. You'll learn how lead can tell your future while zinc may one day line your coffin. You'll discover what connects the bones in your body with the Whitehouse in Washington, the glow of a streetlamp with the salt on your dinner table.
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Periodic Tales
- The Curious Lives of the Elements
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-21
- Language: English
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The Tide
- The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth
- Written by: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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Here is the epic story of the centuries-long search to understand the tide: from Aristotle, said to have drowned himself when he failed to figure out the Greek tides, to the pioneering investigations into the role of the moon by Galileo and Newton to supercomputing in our own time.
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The Tide
- The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2016-09-20
- Language: English
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Periodic Tales
- A Cultural History of the Elements, From Arsenic to Zinc
- Written by: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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Like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination. But aside from the handful of common ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the elements themselves remain wrapped in mystery. We do not know what most of them look like, how they exist in nature, how they got their names, or of what use they are to us.
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Periodic Tales
- A Cultural History of the Elements, From Arsenic to Zinc
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2015-04-28
- Language: English
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