Crowded with Genius: Edinburgh, 1745-1789Harper Collins, 13 жовт. 2009 р. - 464 стор. In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in architecture, politics, science, the arts, and economics—all of which continue to echo loudly today. Adam Smith penned The Wealth of Nations. James Boswell produced The Life of Samuel Johnson. Alongside them, pioneers such as David Hume, Robert Burns, James Hutton, and Sir Walter Scott transformed the way we understand our perceptions and feelings, sickness and health, relations between the sexes, the natural world, and the purpose of existence. In Crowded with Genius, James Buchan beautifully reconstructs the intimate geographic scale and boundless intellectual milieu of Enlightenment Edinburgh. With the scholarship of a historian and the elegance of a novelist, he tells the story of the triumph of this unlikely town and the men whose vision brought it into being. |
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... College , was captivated by the genius , sociability and modesty of ' l'immortel Robertson , Blair , Smith et Ferguson'.8 The Prussian officer J.W. von Archenholz , who travelled in England and Scotland in the 1780s , told his German ...
... College . As for the College professors , the magistrates might arrive in a body unannounced to hear a new appointment AULD REEKIE 5.
... fishwives , sweeps or coal - porters and barefoot housemaids . Sir Walter Scott , who had lost six siblings to the bad air of College Wynd , remembered in the next century that each inhabitable space ' was crowded like 6 CROWDED WITH ...
... College of Physicians , the mathematician Colin MacLaurin and the anatomy professor Alexander Monro primus supped together in the Lord President's house in the Cowgate , ' each Man ' , as Monro remembered , ' having his par- ticular ...
... College , helped account for the sudden ' burst of genius'.45 By the beginning of the eighteenth century , Edinburgh pamph- leteers had passed beyond sectarian subjects . John Law of Lauriston and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun made ...
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4 | 57 |
Smaller Joys from Less Important Causes | 119 |
Torrents of Wind | 173 |
The Savage and the Shopkeeper | 208 |
The Art of Dancing | 241 |
Earth to Earth | 289 |
The Man of Feeling | 398 |
Notes | 412 |
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