Capital of the Mind
Capital of the Mind In the early 18th century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Adam Smith penned "The Wealth of Nations". Yet by century's end, it had…
Specifikacia Capital of the Mind
Capital of the Mind
In the early 18th century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Adam Smith penned "The Wealth of Nations". 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 architecture, politics, science, the arts, and economies - all of which continues to echo loudly today.
Alongside them, pioneers such as David Hume, Robert Burns, James Hutton, and Sir Walter Scott transformed the way we understand our perceptions and feelings, sickness and health, relations between the sexes, the natural world, and the purpose of existence.James Buchan beautifully reconstructs the intimate geographic scale and boundless intellectual milieu of Enlightenment Edinburgh. James Boswell produced "The Life of Samuel Johnson". With the scholarship of an historian and the elegance of a