Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind by James Buchan

Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind

James Buchan

464 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy informative slow-paced
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In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in ...

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