The age of genius
the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind
First U.S. edition.
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Word Count
87,750 words, Guess
Page Count
351 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27202295M
- ISBN-139781620403440
- ISBN-101620403447
- OCLC Control Number907966069
- Internet Archiveageofgeniusseven0000gray
Classifications
- DDC940.252
- LCCD242.G73 2016
Description
xvi, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm
Description
"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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