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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... Provost 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 ...
... Provost to entertain at 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 ...
... Provost and Baillies , Adam Petrie told his readers how to drink from a shared glass : ' Be sure to wipe your Mouth before you drink , and when you drink hold in your Breath till you have done . I have seen some colour the Glass with ...
... Provost he was called first , he was too timid to speak up.76 The government , determined to punish Edinburgh , summoned Lord Provost Wilson to London and clapped him in gaol , and ordered the demolition of the Netherbow Port and the ...
... Provost , Archibald Stewart , who also carried the grand dignities of Lord - Lieutenant , High Sheriff , Captain of the City Guard and Admiral of the Firth of Forth . A wine merchant with vaults in Leith and a warren of a house in the ...
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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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