TY  - GEN
AU  - Grayling, A.C.
TI  - Age of genius: : the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind
SN  - 9781408870389
U1  - 940.252 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Europe
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Modern civilization
KW  - War
KW  - Seventeenth century
N2  - 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
ER  -