Right now I'm reading "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," by Stephen Greenblatt. It's so, so interesting -- it's about an ancient poem by Lucretius, called "On the Nature of Things," was discovered by a papal secretary in the late Middle Ages in an old, remote monastery, where scribes were assigned to copy it (along with loads of …
Right now I'm reading "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," by Stephen Greenblatt. It's so, so interesting -- it's about an ancient poem by Lucretius, called "On the Nature of Things," was discovered by a papal secretary in the late Middle Ages in an old, remote monastery, where scribes were assigned to copy it (along with loads of other books and manuscripts). The ideas in the poem would cause the world to "swerve," the author argues, leading to the modern world we live in today. It's just fascinating.
Right now I'm reading "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," by Stephen Greenblatt. It's so, so interesting -- it's about an ancient poem by Lucretius, called "On the Nature of Things," was discovered by a papal secretary in the late Middle Ages in an old, remote monastery, where scribes were assigned to copy it (along with loads of other books and manuscripts). The ideas in the poem would cause the world to "swerve," the author argues, leading to the modern world we live in today. It's just fascinating.