Age of genius: the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind
Publication details: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016 New Delhi:Description: 351p.; col. ill.; 25 cmISBN:- 9781408870389
- 940.252 GRA
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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
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