[PDF.08ea] Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World

Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World

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 | #349306 in Books |  Birlinn Ltd |  2007-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.70 x1.20 x5.10l,.87 | File type: PDF | 448 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A welcome recognition of Edinburgh's remarkable thinkers|By Customer|Some years ago I travelled through India and Pakistan and was impressed by the scale and durability of much of the infrastructure built by the British Raj over a century ago. As is the way of monument builders, there was often a plaque to commemorate the opening of these structures. More often than not, Sco| |'[An] elegant portrait of Edinburgh in the age of Enlightenment' * Times Literary Supplement * 'A triumph of fact-based, imaginatively expressed writing' -- Magnus Magnusson 'As Buchan says in this marvellous book, "there is no city like Edinburgh in all the w

In the early 18th century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. 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. Adam Smith penned The Wealth of Nations. James Boswell produced The Life of Samuel Johnson. Alongside them, pi...

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