The Age of Genius : The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind / A.C. Grayling.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury; 2016Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: x, 351 p.: illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781620403440
- 9781408870389
- W40 22 G795
- D242 .G73 2016
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"First published in Great Britain, 2016"--Title-page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-340) and index.
Introduction. Seeing the universe ; The epoch in human history -- A time of wars. The origins of the wars ; The loss of the Palatinate ; The mercenary captains ; The Edict of Restitution, 1629 -- The Swedish apogee ; From Wallenstein to Breisach ; Towards Westphalia ; In the ruins of Europe ; The maritime conflicts -- The cumulation of ideas. The intelligencers ; The short ways to knowledge ; Dr Dee and the potent art ; The Rosicrucian scare -- From magic to science. From magic to method ; The birth of science ; War and science -- The social order. Society and politics ; Language and belief -- Conclusion. Is it a myth?
"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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