The age of genius : the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind
Material type: TextPublication details: London Bloomsbury 2018Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: x, 351 pISBN: 9781620403440; 1620403447Subject(s): Civilization, Modern | Seventeenth century | Civilization, Modern | Intellectual life | Science | Seventeenth century | WarDDC classification: 940.252 Summary: "Explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics ... Grayling points to three primary factors [behind this epochal shift]: the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature; the rise of the individual as a general and not merely an aristocratic type; and the invention and application of instruments and measurement in the study of the natural world"--Amazon.com.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"First published in Great Britain, 2016"--Title-page verso.
"Explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics ... Grayling points to three primary factors [behind this epochal shift]: the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature; the rise of the individual as a general and not merely an aristocratic type; and the invention and application of instruments and measurement in the study of the natural world"--Amazon.com.
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