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

342 pages • first pub 2024 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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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