Nearly 600 years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied.
It was the last surviving manuscript of a 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.
踏みはずし:近代がいかに始まったか Tyranny: Shakespeare on Politicsルクレティウス#Stephen_Greenblattグリーンブラット#ルネサンスの自己成型#河野純治
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
著者 Stephen Greenblatt
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Nearly 600 years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied.
It was the last surviving manuscript of a 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.
踏みはずし:近代がいかに始まったか
Tyranny: Shakespeare on Politicsルクレティウス#Stephen_Greenblattグリーンブラット#ルネサンスの自己成型#河野純治