Enlightenment: Morning of the Modern World
‘Here I stand at what is called the Cross of Edinburgh, and can, in a few minutes, take fifty men of genius by the hand.’ So declared John Amyat, the King’s chemist, visiting our city in the middle of the eighteenth century. Such a flowering of thought had occurred only twice before: in the Athens of Pericles, and Renaissance Florence. After losing court and parliament, Edinburgh seemed sure to dissipate into a provincial backwater. Instead it became the fiercest crucible of ideas in Europe. David Purdie and Cameron Goodall explore this remarkable landscape.
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