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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... University Library , the Town Council Archives and the Edinburgh Room of the Central Public Library , Edinburgh . He is grateful for the assistance of Caroline Dawnay , David MacMillan , Caroline Knox , John Murray , Deborah Stewartby ...
... universities in the Netherlands and France , as they had since the early Middle Ages . ' The constant flow of information and liberality from abroad ' , according to Dugald Stewart , later Professor of Moral Philoso- phy at the College ...
... university . The ' tounis colledge ' had been founded after the Reformation as a Presbyterian institution to rival the ancient Catholic foundations of Aberdeen , Glasgow and St Andrews . It received its charter from James VI in 1583. It ...
... University ) was laid out ' after the fashion of London , every house being designed for only one family'.53 In 1720 , according to the Edinburgh Courant , a native teacher of French set up in the town.54 By mid - century Edinburgh had ...
... University Library in Edinburgh , ' is supportd by fear , not love , and the tools who are employed , are hated and contemnd , by almost all people high and low.'75 Drummond recognised that the Council had to be ' new constituted ...
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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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