The swerve : how the world became modern / Stephen Greenblatt.
Tipo de material: TextoDetalles de publicación: New York, New York : W.W. Norton, c2011Descripción: 356 páginas., [8] páginas de láminas : ilustraciones a color ; 25 cmTipo de contenido: texto Tipo de medio: sin medio Tipo de portador: volumenISBN: 9780393343403Tema(s): Lucrecio Caro, Tito -- Influencia | Lucrecio Caro, Tito De rerum natura | Renacimiento | Filosofía renacentista | Ciencia renacentista | Civilización modernaClasificación LoC:PA6484 | .G69Clasificación:Tipo de ítem | Biblioteca actual | Tipo de materiales | Clasificación | Copia número | Estado | Fecha de vencimiento | Código de barras |
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Préstamo general | Biblioteca Gerardo Cornejo Murrieta Acervo General | Libro | PA6484 .G69 (Navegar estantería(Abre debajo)) | Ej. 1 | Disponible | 53949 |
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PA4415.S9 .T7318 Tragedias tebanas : | PA4496.E8 .M3 1965 Recuerdos de Sócrates. Banquete - apología. / | PA6315.S8 .P55 2010 De la república / | PA6484 .G69 The swerve : | PA6649.B10 .D65 Institución oratoria / | PA6701.E8 .V53 Vidas de los doce Césares / | PA6760 .T4718 La Andriana ; La suegra ; El atormentador de sí mismo / |
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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 retur -- Swerves -- Afterlives.
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 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.
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