Greenblatt, Stephen Swerve, The HB 9780224078788

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Автор: Greenblatt, Stephen
Название: Swerve, The HB (Отклонение)
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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История Европы

История Раннего и Высокого Средневековья: с 500 г. по 1450/1500 гг.

Средневековая история

ISBN: 022407878X
ISBN-13(EAN): 9780224078788
Страницы: 336
Дата издания: 01.09.2011
Язык: English
Размер: 241 x 163 (mm)
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: One of the worlds most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. The book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius -- a thrillingly beautiful poem of the most dangerous of ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion.

The copying and translation of this ancient book, the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age, fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno, shaping the thoughts of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein, and influencing writers from Montaigne to Thomas Jefferson.

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