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The Swerve : How the World Became Modern by Lucretius Carus, Titus;Greenblatt, Stephen is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling 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. "The Swerve is one of those brilliant works of non-fiction that's so jam-packed with ideas and stories it literally boggles the mind." - Maureen Corrigan, NPRNearly 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. "There is abundant evidence here of what is Mr Greenblatt’s great and rare gift as a writer: an ability, to borrow a phrase from The Swerve, to feel full

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Author

Lucretius Carus, Titus;Greenblatt, Stephen

Publisher

W W Norton Company; W. W. Norton & Company

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393343403

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Religion

Rating

3.83 / 5 (6,435 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14