The Age of Genius : the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind /

The Age of Genius : the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind /

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Author / Creator:	Grayling, A. C., author.
Edition:	First U.S. edition.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Description:	x, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Civilization, Modern -- 17th century. Seventeenth century. Intellectual life. Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. Europe -- History -- 17th century. Europe. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10522141

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ISBN:	9781620403440 1620403447 9781620403457
Notes:	"First published in Great Britain, 2016"--Title-page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-340) and index.
Summary:	"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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Call Number:	D242.G73 2016
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