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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-     Subjects     Lucretius Carus, Titus -- Influence.     Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura.     Renaissance.     Philosophy, Renaissance.     Science, Renaissance.     Civilization, Modern.     National Book Awards.     Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-       by title:      The swerve : how the...       by call number:      940.21 G798s     Search the Web     Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-     Lucretius Carus, Titus -- Influence.     Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura.     Renaissance.     Philosophy, Renaissance.     Science, Renaissance.     Civilization, Modern.     National Book Awards.     Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.       MARC Display

The swerve : how the world became modern / Stephen Greenblatt. by Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943- W.W. Norton, c2011. Call #: 940.21 G798s Subjects Lucretius Carus, Titus -- Influence.   Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura.   Renaissance.   Philosophy, Renaissance.   Science, Renaissance.   Civilization, Modern.   National Book Awards.   Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction. ISBN:  9780393064476 (hbk.) 0393064476 (hbk.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  356 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-335) and index. Contents:  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. Summary:  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. Awards:  Winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction, 2011. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, 2012. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 940.21 G798s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 940.21 G798s Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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