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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... later had demolished the formal administration of Scotland . In as much as the country was ruled at all during the long ascendancy in London of Sir Robert Walpole , it was controlled by the Duke of Argyll and a clutch of law officers ...
... later , on the ground floor , William Creech , publisher of Burns , entertained the literati with a minimum of expense . The west end of the Luckenbooths faced up and out onto a black- looking , antique , turreted prison known as the ...
... 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 . Important ...
... later . A med- ical society founded in 1731 was relaunched eight years later as the Philosophical Society . The High School , with some four hundred pupils , was among the largest grammar schools in Britain . Puritan enthusiasm for ...
... later lived , were completed in the 1720s ; while Argyle Square ( now engulfed by the University ) was laid out ' after the fashion of London , every house being designed for only one family'.53 In 1720 , according to the Edinburgh ...
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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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