@article{745679,
      note = {"First published in Great Britain, 2016"--Title-page  verso.},
      author = {Grayling, A. C.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/745679},
      title = {The age of genius : the seventeenth century and the birth  of the modern mind /},
      abstract = {"Explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and  inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and  depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a  time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since,  from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics ...  Grayling points to three primary factors [behind this  epochal shift]: the rise of vernacular (popular) languages  in philosophy, theology, science, and literature; the rise  of the individual as a general and not merely an  aristocratic type; and the invention and application of  instruments and measurement in the study of the natural  world"--Amazon.com.},
      recid = {745679},
      pages = {x, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :},
}