Grayling, A.C. <br/><br/>
Age of genius:   the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind 

 - New Delhi:  Bloomsbury Publishing,  2016 
 - 351p.;  col. ill.;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781408870389 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Europe<br/>Intellectual life<br/>Modern civilization<br/>War<br/>Seventeenth century
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>940.252  / GRA