The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy

by Robert Burton

English churchman and scholar Robert Burton (1576-1639) was a passionate student of medicine, history, literature, and science -- the whole of human knowledge. He was also a witty, pedantic, and eloquent genius, who devoted the major part of his life to writing The Anatomy of Melancholy, one of the richest, most inexhaustible books in the English language. Ostensibly an elaborately systematized medical treatise dealing with various morbid...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486421163
• ISBN13: 9780486421162
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"