The Marvellous Century: Archaic Man and the Awakening of
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Woodcock, George, PUBLISHER: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, In this fascinating and scholarly ong>overong>view, George Woodcock, author and poet, ong>allong>ows us to experience ong>theong> beauty, ong>theong> savagery and ong>theong> ong>allong>-encompassing impact of ong>Theong> Marvellous Century. It was an era of personalities and uprisings. It was ong>theong> time of Xenophanes, Cyrus, Solon ong>theong> lawmaker, Sappho, ong>theong> Buddha, Aeschylus, Pythagoras, Confucius, Lao-tzu and Nebuchadnezzar. It was an era of prose reawakenings, ong>theong> exploration of rational thought, ong>theong> central Asian silk trade, and ong>theong> ong>writingong> of ong>theong> Upanishads. For ong>theong> Chinese, it was ong>theong> period of Spring and Autumn under ong>theong> Chou Kingdom. Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism and Modern Judaism had ong>theong>ir roots in ong>theong> sixth century. ong>Theong> Greek philosopher, Thales, studied astronomy and geometry - passing on knowledge picked up from ong>theong> Egyptians - and it was Thales who first postulated ong>theong> angles at ong>theong> base of an isosceles triangle to be equal. In India, atomic ong>theong>ories emerged, and geography, geology and physics ong>allong> developed as disciplines.