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>ong>theong>ong> beauty, ong>ong>theong>ong> savagery ong>andong> ong>ong>theong>ong> all-encompassing ong>impactong> ong>ofong> ong>ong>Theong>ong> Marvellous Century. It was an era ong>ofong> personalities ong>andong> uprisings. It was ong>ong>theong>ong> time ong>ofong> Xenophanes, Cyrus, Solon ong>ong>theong>ong> lawmaker, Sappho, ong>ong>theong>ong> Buddha, Aeschylus, Pythagoras, Confucius, Lao-tzu ong>andong> Nebuchadnezzar. It was an era ong>ofong> prose reawakenings, ong>ong>theong>ong> exploration ong>ofong> rational thought, ong>ong>theong>ong> central Asian silk trade, ong>andong> ong>ong>theong>ong> writing ong>ofong> ong>ong>theong>ong> Upanishads. For ong>ong>theong>ong> Chinese, it was ong>ong>theong>ong> period ong>ofong> Spring ong>andong> Autumn under ong>ong>theong>ong> Chou Kingdom. Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism ong>andong> Modern Judaism had ong>ong>theong>ong>ir roots in ong>ong>theong>ong> sixth century. ong>ong>Theong>ong> Greek philosopher, Thales, studied astronomy ong>andong> geometry - passing on knowledge picked up from ong>ong>theong>ong> Egyptians - ong>andong> it was Thales who first postulated ong>ong>theong>ong> angles at ong>ong>theong>ong> base ong>ofong> an isosceles triangle to be equal. In India, atomic ong>ong>theong>ong>ories emerged, ong>andong> geography, geology ong>andong> physics all developed as disciplines.