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The Age of Genius

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Age of Genius

By A. C. Grayling

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About the book

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 tran...Show more

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9781408870020

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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2017

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The Age of Genius

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