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The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to see, in every its richness and depth, the storyplot of the 17th hundred years in Europe. It was a period of creativity unmatched ever sold before or since, from knowledge to the arts, from philosophy to politics. Acclaimed philosopher and historian A. C. Grayling factors to three most important factors that resulted in the surge of vernacular (popular) dialects in philosophy, theology, knowledge, and literature; the surge of the average person as an over-all and not just an aristocratic type; and the technology and application of instruments and way of measuring in the analysis of the natural world. Grayling vividly reconstructs this unprecedented time and breathes new lease of life in to the major numbers of the 17th hundred years intelligentsia who spanned literature, music, science, artwork, and philosophy - Shakespeare, Monteverdi, Galileo, Rembrandt, Locke, Newton, Descartes, Vermeer, Hobbes, Milton, and Cervantes, among a lot more. During this hundred years, a fundamentally new way of perceiving the earth surfaced as reason rose to prominence over custom, and the protection under the law of the average person took center stage in philosophy and politics - a paradigmatic change that would define Western thought for centuries to come.
