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The swerve : (Record no. 34537)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 34537
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field DLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20240430145101.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 110526s2011 nyuaf b 001 0 eng
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2011019765
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780393064476 :
Terms of availability 26.95
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0393064476 :
Terms of availability 26.95
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Transcribing agency DLC
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043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Geographic area code e------
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PA6484
Item number .G69 2011
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090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) PA 6484 .G69 2011
090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) PA 6484 .G69 2011
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Greenblatt, Stephen,
Dates associated with a name 1943-
9 (RLIN) 110910
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.
9 (RLIN) 110912
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Lucretius Carus, Titus.
Title of a work De rerum natura.
9 (RLIN) 110913
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Renaissance.
9 (RLIN) 110915
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy, Renaissance.
9 (RLIN) 110917
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Science, Renaissance.
9 (RLIN) 110918
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Civilization, Modern.
9 (RLIN) 110919
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942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Books
998 ## - LOCAL CONTROL INFORMATION (RLIN)
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Operator's initials, OID (RLIN) 01-26-12
Cataloger's initials, CIN (RLIN) m
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