The swerve : how the world became modern /
In this book the author transports readers to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. In this work he has crafted both a work of history and a story of discovery, in which on...
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| Formato: | Livro |
| Idioma: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
c2011.
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| Edição: | 1st ed. |
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| Classic Catalogue: | View this record in Classic Catalogue |
Sumário:
- The book hunter
- The moment of discovery
- In search of Lucretius
- The teeth of time
- Birth and rebirth
- In the lie factory
- A pit to catch foxes
- The way things are
- The return
- Swerves
- Afterlives.