Theirs was a world of exploration and experimentation, of movement and growth - and in this, the thinkers of the Renaissance, poets and scientists alike, followed their countrymen into uncharted territory and unthought space. A book that takes us to the very heart of the enterprise of the Renaissance, this closely focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus...(展开全部)

杰里米·布莱克（Jeremy Black） 英国埃克塞特大学历史学教授，军事与外交史专家，曾在西点军校、德克萨斯基督教大学和斯蒂尔曼学院担任客座教授。2008年获得美国军事史学会颁发的“塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖”。2018年成为英国外交政策研究所的邓普顿研究员。他曾出版100多本历史著作，包括《绘制过去：18世纪英格兰的历史世界》《绘制莎士比亚：通过地图探索莎士比亚的世界》等。

杰里米·布莱克（Jeremy Black） 英国埃克塞特大学历史学教授，军事与外交史专家，曾在西点军校、德克萨斯基督教大学和斯蒂尔曼学院担任客座教授。2008年获得美国军事史学会颁发的“塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖”。2018年成为英国外交政策研究所的邓普顿研究员。他曾出版100多本历史著作，包括《绘制过去：18世纪英格兰的历史世界》《绘制莎士比亚：通过地图探索莎士比亚的世界》等。

弗兰克 克蒙德（Frank Kermode，1919-2010），英国最著名和最受喜爱的文学批评家、爵士、国王爱德华七世的英语文学教授。他是国王学院、剑桥大学的名誉学者，并获芝加哥大学、利物浦大学、纽卡斯尔大学、耶鲁大学、卫斯理大学、西沃恩大学和阿姆斯特丹大学荣誉博士学位。此外，他还是英国研究院和皇家文学研究会会员，美国艺术与科学研究院、美国艺术与文字研究院名誉会员。著有《莎士比亚的语言》《注意力的形式》《无名》《秘密的起源》《终结的意义》等。

In The Age of Shakespeare , Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on a tour of Shakespeare’s England, vividly portraying London’s society, its ea...(展开全部)

A brilliantly clear and penetrating exposition of developments in physical science and mathematics brought about by the advent of non-Euclidean geometries, including in-depth coverage of the foundations of geometry, the theory of time, Einstein’s theory of relativity and its consequences, other key topics.

Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united in a single quantum theory of gravity? Can quantum and cosmos ever be combined? On this issue, two of the wor...(展开全部)

Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united in a single quantum theory of gravity? Can quantum and cosmos ever be combined? On this issue, two of the wor...(展开全部)

A brilliantly clear and penetrating exposition of developments in physical science and mathematics brought about by the advent of non-Euclidean geometries, including in-depth coverage of the foundations of geometry, the theory of time, Einstein’s theory of relativity and its consequences, other key topics.

Space and time are the most fundamental features of our experience of the world, and yet they are also the most perplexing. Does time really flow, or is that simply an illusion? Did time have a beginning? What does it mean to say that time has a direction? Does space have boundaries, or is it infinite? Is change really possible? Could space and time exist in the absence of any ...(展开全部)