The Swerve
How the Renaissance Began
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things by Lucretius and it changed the course of history. He found a beautiful poem of the most dangerous 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. These ideas fuelled the Renaissance, inspiring…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4464-9929-0
- EAN: 9781446499290
- Produktnummer: 14352377
- Verlag: Vintage Digital
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'070 KB
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Stephen Greenblatt
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