In this fascinating and scholarly overview, George Woodcock, author and poet, allows us to experience the beauty, the savagery and the all-encompassing impact of The Marvellous Century. It was an era of personalities and uprisings. * It was the time of Xenophanes, Cyrus, Solon the lawmaker, Sappho, the Buddha, Aeschylus, Pythagoras, Confucius, Lao-tzu and Nebuchadnezzar. * It was an era of prose reawakenings, the exploration of rational thought, the central Asian silk trade, and the writing of the Upanishads. * For the Chinese, it was the period of Spring and Autumn under the Chou Kingdom. * Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism and Modern Judaism had their roots in the sixth century. * The Greek philosopher, Thales, studied astronomy and geometry; - passing on knowledge picked up from the Egyptians, and - he was the one that first postulated the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle to be equal. * In India, atomic theories emerged, and geography, geology and physics all developed as disciplines. "History never arranges itself in neat capsules of a hundred years each, and what I am writing about when I name the sixth century is a period of between 120 and 130 years, characterized by a cluster of events that changed irrevocably the way men looked upon the universe and even upon themselves." - George Woodcock
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