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Ada Palmer (duplicate): Inventing the Renaissance (Hardcover, 2025, Head of Zeus) 4 stars

The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the …

(If seeing the concept of purity used like this is making your skin crawl, (A) good for you! (B) I recommend a trip down the hall to the Philosophy Lab where Alexis Shot well is brewing up work on the destructive effects of purity as a concept in our modern world. Each lab brews different things to make our world better: Chem Lab, new meds; Physics Lab, new particles; History and Philosophy Labs, new proofs that Nazis are wrong.)

Inventing the Renaissance by  (Page 39)

Hell yeah!

Notes the name drop for further investigation 8-)