Radical innovators : the blessings of adversity in science and art, 1500-2000
by
Blok, Anton, author.
Title
:
Radical innovators : the blessings of adversity in science and art, 1500-2000
Vernieuwers. English.
Author
:
Blok, Anton, author.
ISBN
:
9781509505524
9781509505517
Personal Author
:
Blok, Anton, author.
Uniform Title
:
Vernieuwers. English.
Physical Description
:
235 pages ; 23 cm.
General Note
:
First published in Dutch as Vernieuwers, 2013.
Abstract
:
Leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionised science and art over the past 5 centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success. Through a collective biography of some 90 radical innovators, including Erasmus, Spinoza, Newton, Bach, Sade, Darwin, Melville, Mendel, Cezanne, Curie, Brancusi, Einstein, Wittgenstein, Keynes and Goodall, Blok shows how a significant proportion in fact benefitted from social exclusion.
Subject Term
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Science -- History.
Art -- History.
Art and science -- History.
Anthropology.
Bibliographical References
:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805
:
npmlib 10605505 Q125 B5827 ysh
Library | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Copy | Material Type | Status |
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NPM Library | Q125 B5827 2017 | 10605505 | 1 | B | *西文書二區(調閱申請) |