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
Science -- History.
 
Art -- History.
 
Art and science -- History.
 
Anthropology.

Bibliographical References
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Field 805
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