For 10 points, name this 17th-century English writer of Hydriotaphia, also known as Urn Burial.
In Natsume Soseki's novel Sanshiro, Professor Hirota lends an English-language book by this author to the title character, who associates the book with the professor because both are impenetrable yet interesting. W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn incorporates a drawing of a pattern with 食ve points taken from this man's writings. Javier Marías has translated two works by this physician and author into Spanish, including his spiritual testament on the "Religion of a Doctor." He wrote that man is a "noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave" in a passage that concludes "life is pure جحيame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us"; that passage by this author of The Garden of Cyrus was inspired by the discovery of a Roman burial site in Norfolk. For 10 points, name this 17th-century English writer of Hydriotaphia, also known as Urn Burial.
In Natsume Soseki's novel Sanshiro, Professor Hirota lends an English-language book by this author to the title character, who associates the book with the professor because both are impenetrable yet interesting.
Sir Thomas Browne