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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... home - brewed small beer , and dined as follows : Monday Tuesday Kail without flesh , and eggs when cheap , and in place thereof cheese and a mutchkin of ale to every servant , and half a mutchkin to the chil- dren , the bread as ...
... home ( President's Close ) rather than in a tavern.24 By the next decade , there were six hundred tavern licences within the Royalty , or bounds , of Edinburgh.25 The drinks were ale at a penny an English quart , claret , whisky , West ...
... home in revolutionary America . By the time of the Union of the Parliaments , Edinburgh had strong intellectual institutions of long foundation- the courts , the Kirk , the College - which were guaranteed under Acts of Security ...
... home , Principal Castares , who had spent some time in Dutch exile before the 1688 Revolution , in 1708 introduced from Leyden and Utrecht the system of specialised professors . This divi- sion of academic labour replaced the old Scots ...
... home ... The pas- sengers flee along Prince's Street before the galloping squalls.'1 The beauty of Princes Street is its setting . By an Act of 1816 the British Parliament in London outlawed any new building on the south side of Princes ...
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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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