Age of genius

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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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The Age of Genius

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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 Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

The Frontiers of Knowledge

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grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects steven pinker in very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe the past and itself but through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn th Uiterlijk 3 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

What is Good?

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In his major new book a c grayling examines the different ways to live a good life as proposed from classical antiquity to the recent present grayling focuses on the two very different conceptions of what a good life should be one is a broadly secular view rooted in attitudes about human nature Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 23 februari 2017

Aantal pagina's: 368

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: A. C. Grayling

Hoofduitgeverij: Bloomsbury Publishing

Editie: 1

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 129 mm

Product hoogte: 29 mm

Product lengte: 198 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 129 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 198 mm

Verpakking lengte: 198 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 410 g

EAN: 9781408870020

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