The swerve how the world became modern

In this work, the author has crafted both a work of history and a 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...

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Main Author:	Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Lucretius Carus, Titus > Influence. Lucretius Carus, Titus. > De rerum natura. Renaissance. Philosophy, Renaissance. Science, Renaissance. Civilization, Modern.
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