Round 20: Tossup 13

This writer describes a nightly “colloquy with God” in a “cosmography of myself” that is often published with a set of “observations” by Sir Kenelm Digby. Samuel Taylor Coleridge praised the “little twist in the brains” of this writer and this writer’s concluding remark “The huntsmen are up in America.” Books by this writer list the belief that peacocks are afraid of their feet among “vulgar errors” and find evidence of “quincuncial (10[1])lozenges” throughout nature. This physician, who coined hundreds of Latinate neologisms, wrote aphorisms like “The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying” and “Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave” in an essay inspired by the unearthing of Anglo-Saxon funerary pottery. For 10 points, what eccentric 17th-century essayist wrote Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial? ■END■

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