The Age Of Genius Av Professor A. C. Grayling

<p><b>Bestselling author A. C. Grayling explains how--fueled by original and unorthodox thinking, war, and technological invention--the seventeenth century became the crucible of modernity.</b></p><p>What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching <i>Macbeth</i> at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen <i>Macbeth</i> forty-four years earlier, could stand and watch the execution of a king? Or consider the difference between a magus casting a star chart and the day in 1639 when Jonathan Horrock and William Crabtree watched the transit of Venus across the face of the sun from their attic, successfully testing its course against Kepler''s Tables of Planetary Motion, in a classic case of confirming a scientific theory by empirical testing.</p><p> In this turbulent period, science moved from the alchemy and astrology

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