Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and science-fiction novelist, author of Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance
loved
This is not a book but a set of lectures, an absolutely brilliant overview of the changes in western thought over the course of the 17th to 18th centuries that were so pivotal to the development of the modern world, especially science, democracy, and current ideas of ethics and politics.
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