- History, Science, Thought and thinking, Modernism (Aesthetics)
In the early 1870s, mathematicians like Cantor and Dedekind discovered the set and divided the mathematical continuum; in 1886, Georges Seurat debuted his visionary masterpiece, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte; by the end of 1900, Hugo de Vries had discovered the gene, Max Planck had laid claim to the quantum, and Sigmund Freud had laid bare the unconscious workings of dreams.
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Warm, epic, earnest and cool.
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- William R. Everdell
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 505
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press, University Of Chicago Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780226224848
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