Descartes
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World Edward Dolnick Harper Perennial (2011) A compelling account of “a group of scientists who set out to read God’s mind” and what they learned Authors…
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A Literary Education and Other Essays Joseph Epstein Axios Press (2014) Compelling, eloquent evidence of one writer’s education: “First reality, then ideas” I have read most of Joseph Epstein’s collections of essays dating back to Divorced in America: Marriage in…
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Is the next Age of Enlightenment already here or imminent?
In recent years, two of the most intellectually stimulating books I have read were written by Anthony Gottlieb: The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (2000; Second Edition, 2016) and The Dream…
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