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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... John and Lady Clerk of Penicuik , 1792 ( Sir Henry Raeburn ) II . Duncan Forbes of Culloden , c . 1737 ( attr . Jeremiah Davison ) 12. East View of Edinburgh Castle , c . 1746 ( Paul Sandby ) 13. Provost George Drummond , 1764 ( Sir ...
... ( John Clerk of Eldin ) 20. The General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland , 1783 ( David Allan ) 21. Mrs Agnes McLehose , 1788 ( John Miers ) The authors and publishers would like to thank the following for per- mission to reproduce ...
... John Coutts , the general merchant who treated with the Highland rebels and gave his name to a long - lived bank , became in 1742 the first Lord Provost to entertain at home ( President's Close ) rather than in a tavern.24 By the next ...
... John Kay : Andrew Nichol , ' Muck Andrew ' , who litigated thirty years over a middenstead ( dung- heap ) and died destitute in Cupar gaol , or John Skene , ' the Heckler ' , who worked nights as a flax - dresser then changed into a ...
... John Buchan later put it , than any town its size but Athens , Jerusalem and Rome.44 The religious disputes and civil violence of the seventeenth cen- tury had caused the Lowland Scots to think about the purposes of political government ...
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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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