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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... and butter and ale as regulated.21 There was still little bread eaten . Once a week Duncan Forbes of Culloden , Lord President of the supreme civil court known as the Court of Session , Dr John Clerk of Listonshiels AULD REEKIE 7.
... known as the General Assembly held its annual meeting . In a city without a royal court or a parliament , this ecclesiastical plenary was a high day in the calendar . Facing St Giles in the middle of the High Street and separated from ...
... known as the Outer House or , if his sole judgment was unacceptable to one of the parties , the ' haill fifteen ' ( all fifteen ) Lords of Session , sit- ting in an apartment called the Inner House . It was an informal age in Scotland ...
... no appeal . A row of tenements to the south and east , rebuilt after a fire in 1700 , formed with the Parliament House and St Giles a square known as the Parliament Close . Out in the High Street , half - way between AULD REEKIE II I.
... known , was no ivory tower but an indispensable piece in the pattern of influence , patronage and corporate jealousy that constituted Edinburgh life . The place was modest in the extreme , with just three courtyards and no more than a ...
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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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