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