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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: swerve
    sub title: how the world became modern
  name:
    name part: Greenblatt, Stephen
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2011
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Preface -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Photograph credits -- Index.
  note: Stephen Greenblatt.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lucretius Carus, Titus
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lucretius Carus, Titus
  subject:
    topic: Renaissance
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Renaissance
  subject:
    topic: Science, Renaissance
  subject:
    topic: Civilization, Modern
  classification: PA6484 .G69 2011
  classification: 940.2/1
  identifier: 0393064476 (hbk.)
  identifier: 9780393064476 (hbk.)
  identifier: 2011019765
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110526
    record change date: 20151202143354.0
    record identifier: in00002729385