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25 cm. x, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial. Idioma Inglés. A. C. Grayling. "First published in Great Britain, 2016"--Title-page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-340) and index. Contents Introduction. Seeing the universe ; The epoch in human history -- A time of wars. The origins of the wars ; The loss of the Palatinate ; The mercenary captains ; The Edict of Restitution, 1629 -- The Swedish apogee ; From Wallenstein to Breisach ; Towards Westphalia ; In the ruins of Europe ; The maritime conflicts -- The cumulation of ideas. The intelligencers ; The short ways to knowledge ; Dr Dee and the potent art ; The Rosicrucian scare -- From magic to science. From magic to method ; The birth of science ; War and science -- The social order. Society and politics ; Language and belief -- Conclusion. Is it a myth? .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 9781620403440; 1620403447; 9781620403457
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Britain's most eminent publicly engaged philosopher * Scotland on Sunday * If there is any such person in Britain as The Thinking man, it is A. C. Grayling * The Times * Grayling is particularly good at illuminating the knottiness of moral discourse * Sunday Times * There is an immense depth of human wisdom on display here, and five minutes with any passage will have you contemplating all day * Independent on The Good Book * Very interesting ... His account of the transition from magic to science is fascinating, and he demonstrates persuasively that the 17th century did indeed see a revolution in habits of thought and understanding of the physical world -- Allan Massie * Scotsman * This sprint from the tenets of superstition to an increasingly revealed reality is a wonderful subject * Glasgow Herald * Grayling is a natural educator ... He provides concise and helpful summaries of pertinent events and ideas * Spectator * His chapters on Bacon's freethinking, on Newton's scientific method and on Locke's political theory are models of their craft * Tablet * A fascinating look at where we come from * Western Mail * Anyone who can steer this particular reader through the labyrinth of diets and edicts and treaties that populate The Thirty Years' War deserves the highest praise. And Grayling is a model of clarity ... As a survey of the period, The Age of Genius is fascinating [and] as an account of the development of ideas during one of the most exciting periods in Western history, The Age of Genius excels. Its scope is remarkable and it wears its learning lightly * Literary Review * A characteristically lucid but impassioned account of the power of ideas to change the way we see the world -- P.D. Smith * Guardian *
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What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earlier, could stand and watch the execution of a king? Or consider the difference between a magus casting a star chart and the day in 1639, when Jonathan Horrock and William Crabtree watched the transit of Venus across the face of the sun from their attic, successfully testing its course against Kepler's Tables of Planetary Motion, in a classic case of confirming a scientific theory by empirical testing. In this turbulent period, science moved from the alchemy and astrology of John Dee to the painstaking observation and astronomy of Galileo, from the classicism of Aristotle, still favoured by the Church, to the evidence-based, collegiate investigation of Francis Bacon. And if the old ways still lingered and affected the new mind set - Descartes's dualism an attempt to square the new philosophy with religious belief; Newton, the man who understood gravity and the laws of motion, still fascinated to the end of his life by alchemy - by the end of that tumultuous century 'the greatest ever change in the mental outlook of humanity' had irrevocably taken place.
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