Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment
Subtitle: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: November 30, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780060558895
First sentence: Edinburgh in the warm September of 1745 was a handsome, cramped and discontented provincial town of approximately 40,000 people, just embarking on modernity.