The swerve : (Record no. 23294)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20170518102834.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 170221b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2011019765 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0393064476 (hbk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780393064476 (hbk.) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (OCoLC)ocn711051785 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MMU |
| Transcribing agency | MMU |
| Modifying agency | MMU |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE | |
| Geographic area code | e------ |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PA6484 |
| Item number | .G69 2011 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 940.2/1 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Greenblatt, Stephen, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1943- |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The swerve : |
| Remainder of title | how the world became modern / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Stephen Greenblatt. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | W.W. Norton, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | c2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 356 p., [8] p. of plates : |
| Other physical details | col. ill. ; |
| Dimensions | 25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-335) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The book hunter -- The moment of discovery -- In search of Lucretius -- The teeth of time -- Birth and rebirth -- In the lie factory -- A pit to catch foxes -- The way things are -- The return -- Swerves -- Afterlives. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | In this book the author transports readers to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. In this work he has crafted both a work of history and a story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius, a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions. The copying and translation of this ancient book, the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age, fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lucretius Carus, Titus |
| General subdivision | Influence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lucretius Carus, Titus. |
| Title of a work | De rerum natura. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Renaissance. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Philosophy, Renaissance. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Science, Renaissance. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Civilization, Modern. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | L |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Library of Congress Classification | Maasai Mara University Library -Main Campus | Maasai Mara University Library -Main Campus | 02/21/2017 | Donation -T4C | PA6484 .G69 2011 | 17024739 | 02/21/2017 | 02/21/2017 | L |