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020 $a9781408870020 (pbk.) :$cNT$700
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100 1 $aGrayling, A. C.,$eauthor.
245 14$aThe age of genius :$bthe seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind /$cA.C. Grayling.
250 $aPaperback edition.
260 $aLondon :$bBloomsbury,$c2017.
300 $axvi, 351 p., 8 unnumbered p. :$billustrations (some colour), map, portraits ;$c20 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aWhat happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty- four years earlier, could stand and watch the execution of a king. In this turbulent period, science moved from the alchemy and astrology of John Dee to the painstaking observation and astronomy of Galileo, from the classicism of Aristotle, still favoured by the Church, to the evidence-based, collegiate investigation of Francis Bacon. And if the old ways still lingered and affected the new mind set - Descartes's dualism an attempt to square the new philosophy with religious belief; Newton, the man who understood gravity and the laws of motion, still fascinated to the end of his life by alchemy - by the end of that tumultuous century 'the greatest ever change in the mental outlook of humanity' had irrevocably taken place.
650 0$aScience$xHistory.
650 0$aCivilization, Modern$y17th century.
650 0$aWar$xHistory.
650 0$aSeventeenth century.
651 0$aEurope$xIntellectual life$y17th century.
651 0$aEurope$xHistory$y17th century.