The Swerve: How the World Became Modern [Audiobook] download free by Stephen J. Greenblatt
- Listen audiobook: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
- Author: Stephen J. Greenblatt
- Release date: 2018/2/6
- Publisher: WW NORTON & CO
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9780393343403
- Rating: 9.5 of 10
- Votes: 176
- Review by: Eason Rodriguez
- Review rating: 7.65 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/4
- Duration: 4H30M33S in 256 kbps (73.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-24
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, MPC, WAV, FLAC, ATRAC, WMA, Apple Lossless, MPEG4 (compression RAR, TAR, TAR.BZ, ZIP, AZW4)
- Total pages original book: 368
- Includes a PDF summary of 41 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 29M42S (8.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700, Art History: Renaissance, Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500, General & World History, History Of Western Philosophy
- Download servers: BitShare, 4Shared, FreakShare, Google Drive, Librevault, Depositfiles, Mediafire. Compressed in RAR, TAR, TAR.BZ, ZIP, AZW4
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.45 USD
- Dimensions: 140x208x25mm
- Weight: 430g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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