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Radical innovators : the blessings of adversity in science and art, 1500-2000
Title:
Radical innovators : the blessings of adversity in science and art, 1500-2000

Vernieuwers. English.
Author:
Blok, Anton, author.
ISBN:
9781509505524

9781509505517
Personal 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.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 10605505 Q125 B5827 ysh
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