Enlightenment Edinburgh : a guide
Szatkowski, Sheila2017
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During the 18th century, Edinburgh was the intellectual hub of the Western world. Adam Smith, David Hume, Dugald Stewart and Adam Ferguson delivered their diverse tomes on philosophy and political economy. Others pushed ahead with new discoveries in the fields of science, medicine, law and architecture. If Edinburgh was the beating heart of the Scottish Enlightenment then its physical embodiment was the New Town and the great civic improvements in the old medieval city. Here, Sheila Szatkowski introduces the noteworthy buildings and people of 18th- and early 19th-century Edinburgh.
Main title:
Enlightenment Edinburgh : a guide / Sheila Szatkowski.
Author:
Szatkowski, Sheila, author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2017.
Collation:
96 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781780273730 (pbk)
Dewey class:
914.134914.134
LC class:
DA890.E3
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1582220