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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics ... Grayling points to three primary factors [behind this epochal shift]: the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature;...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The hints of an impending environmental crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, as winters grew colder and crops diminished. By the turn of the seventeenth century, the temperature had plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds were dropping frozen out of the sky, and enterprising Londoners erected semipermanent frost fairs on a frozen Thames--with bustling kiosks, taverns, and even brothels. Chronicling the dramatic...
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history volume 175
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Series
What life was like volume 15
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history volume 192
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history volume Volume 225
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art art history and intellectual history volume Volume 15
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art art history and intellectual history volume Volume 15
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English