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:Once… you start thinking what the implications of a world made of atoms and emptiness and nothing else, lots of things, potentially at least, follow. And the things that follow can be extremely dangerous -- [dangerous to pagan, Jewish] or Christian orthodoxy… :Once… you start thinking what the implications of a world made of atoms and emptiness and nothing else, lots of things, potentially at least, follow. And the things that follow can be extremely dangerous -- [dangerous to pagan, Jewish] or Christian orthodoxy…
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern is a non-fiction book by Stephen Greenblatt and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Greenblatt tells the story of how Poggio Bracciolini, a 15th-century papal emissary and obsessive bibliophile, saved the last copy of the Roman poet Lucretius's On the Nature of Things from near-terminal neglect in a German monastery, thus reintroducing important ideas that sparked the modern age.

Greenblatt noted how unpopular the irreligious nature of the poem was even before Christianity spread:

Once… you start thinking what the implications of a world made of atoms and emptiness and nothing else, lots of things, potentially at least, follow. And the things that follow can be extremely dangerous -- [dangerous to pagan, Jewish] or Christian orthodoxy…

The book mentions Lorenzo Valla, Thomas More, Erasmus, Rabelais, Montaigne, Aristotle, Christian heretics and the clinamen.

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  1. The book hunter --
  2. The moment of discovery --
  3. In search of Lucretius --
  4. The teeth of time --
  5. Birth and rebirth --
  6. In the lie factory --
  7. A pit to catch foxes --
  8. The way things are --
  9. The return --
  10. Swerves --
  11. Afterlives.




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