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Loading... Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius: The Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Russia's Unknown da Vinciby Avril Pyman
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Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius is the first biography in English of an extraordinary polymath whose genius was stifled and finally extinguished by the Soviet Union. He has been compared to Pascal, Teilhard de Chardin, even da Vinci. Florensky was, at one and the same time, a supremely gifted philosopher, mathematician, physicist, inventor, engineer and theologian. He was also a poet and wrote studies of history, language and art. Although he taught philosophy for most of his working life, his interests were wide-ranging and profound and included the study of time and space, theoretical and ap No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)947.083092History and Geography Europe Russia and eastern Europe [and formerly Finland] Russian & Slavic History by Period 1855- Nicholas II, 1894-1917LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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