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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... George Drummond , 1764 ( Sir George Chalmers ) 14. Perspective View of the Royal Infirmary from the North , c . 1753 ( Paul Sandby ) 15. James Craig , c . 1770s ( David Allan ) 16. Plan of the New Streets and Squares Intended for the ...
... George Drummond - who had a cold and thus the privilege of taking just sack and water - to ask God to ' pardon me the guilt of others'.27 At their mother's funeral in 1716 , the future President of the Session Duncan Forbes and his ...
... George Buchanan and Gavin Douglas before the Fifteen , and of Allan Ramsay senior's verses in the 1720s.51 Under ... George Heriot's foundation of 1659 , and George Watson's Hospital in Lauriston ; and for girls , two long- established ...
... George Drummond's Royal Infirmary , designed by William Adam on two acres looking north over the Cowgate and com- pleted in 1741-2 , in good time to take the wounded redcoats from Prestonpans . Domestically there was a breath of change ...
... George Lockhart , a contemporary witness , said His Grace hurried from the Parliament House to his coach at the Cross ' through two Lanes of Musqueteers ' and raced to his lodgings in Holyrood at top gallop , under a hail AULD REEKIE 19.
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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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