The Swerve : How the World Became Modern
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One of the world's 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 thirties took a very old
manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had
discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last
surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the
Nature of Things, by Lucretius 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,
colliding and swerving in new directions.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,
shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein, and
had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and
Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson.",
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W. W. Norton & Company ,
Stephen Greenblatt
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W. W. Norton & Company,
Stephen Greenblatt
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