Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern

Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great

Paul Strathern with Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

13 hours, 30 minutes first pub 2024 (view editions) user-added

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Ideal for readers who relish a nuanced exploration of intellectual progress interwoven with the era's moral complexities and human costs.

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 By exploring all the key events and bringing to life some of the most influential characters of the era, including Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Newton, Descartes, Spinoza, Louis XIV and Charles I, Paul Strathern tells the story of this paradoxical age,...

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