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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... building in Parliament Close hard against the south - west corner of the high church of St Giles and did its drinking at Lucky Wilson's tavern in Writers ' Court . Its ordinary membership was twenty - five , which could be expanded ...
... buildings , so that all legal , town and church business was done in dark taverns . Indeed 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 ...
... building called the Weigh - house where butter and cheese were sold . From here the West Bow , the most fanatical ( and haunted ) street in Edinburgh , ran down in ' sanctified bends ' amid the inces- sant banging of the whitesmiths ...
... building surmounted by a pillar bearing the Scottish unicorn . This was the ancient burgh mercat or market Cross ... build military roads to pacify the rebellious Highlands , a night in Edinburgh was best forgotten . At the inn , ' the ...
... buildings , naturally enough imagine them to be almshouses for the reception of the poor.'47 An American student called the place ' a most miserable musty pile scarce fit for stables'.48 The students boarded in the town : Alexander Adam ...
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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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