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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... Societies sprang up for encouraging manufactures , abolishing Scottish pronunciation and spreading the Gospel . Rents ... society , the composition of physical matter , time and space , right actions , what binds and what divides the two ...
... society , was once seen riding up the High Street on a sow which her sister drove on with a stick.16 The lands themselves accommodated dancing - masters and Lords of Session and all sorts in between.17 The dark scale - stairs were ...
... who killed a man in a brawl over a horse during Monmouth's rebellion of 1685 , dreamed of estab- lishing in Scotland a military society based on the aristocratic virtues of ancient Sparta . A high - minded patriot AULD REEKIE 13.
... 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 organising the poor had ...
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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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