Authors: Eric Weiner
bubonic plague in,
98
,
114
,
124
,
129
–30,
156
Calcutta and,
193
,
211
cloth trade in,
118
–19
competition and,
123
–28
currency of,
98
–99,
138
demise of,
138
,
251
and discovery of lost classics,
130
–31
Edinburgh and,
143
,
157
education in,
126
–27,
179
gambling in,
119
–20
Hangzhou and,
67
,
138
instability in,
128
–30
landscape of,
98
,
114
Leonardo and,
7
,
15
,
97
,
99
,
107
,
118
,
125
,
137
,
194
,
276
,
309
materialism in,
117
–18,
138
,
263
Medicis and,
102
–3,
105
–7,
130
–31,
134
,
138
,
312
problem finding in,
121
–22
Renaissance and,
9
,
20
,
97
–99,
102
–3,
107
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118
,
120
,
122
–26,
128
–30,
135
–38,
190
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194
,
220
,
288
,
314
,
324
Silicon Valley and,
288
–89,
301
,
305
,
307
,
312
,
314
tourism in,
100
,
108
,
136
Verrocchio and,
107
–9
Vienna and,
220
–21,
226
,
251
,
279
wealth of,
118
–20,
130
,
137
–38
weather in,
102
,
136
workshops in,
107
,
113
,
212
,
325
Florida, Richard,
167
Forster, E. M.,
139
Foster, William,
296
France,
20
,
23
,
87
,
90
,
155
,
162
–63,
187
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220
,
230
,
233
,
321
Franklin, Benjamin,
142
,
147
,
287
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke,
284
Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria,
251
,
282
–83
Freeman, Walter,
196
–97
Freud, Sigmund,
52
,
76
,
126
,
241
,
259
–78,
289
,
324
cafés and,
15
,
229
,
263
clutter of,
263
–64
collecting of,
260
–61,
267
–69,
276
couch of,
262
,
272
dream theory of,
260
–61
Einstein and,
7
,
269
–70
Fliess and,
273
–75
Guttmann on,
281
–82
Jews and,
260
,
262
–63,
265
–66,
273
,
276
–78
Nazis and,
262
,
267
physical appearance of,
217
,
263
–64,
272
,
275
rejection of,
265
–66
schema violations of,
271
–72
and sources of genius,
143
–44
unconscious theory of,
82
,
265
,
278
Vienna and,
15
,
82
,
217
–18,
229
,
249
,
252
,
260
–67,
269
–70,
272
–74,
276
–78,
281
,
283
Frost, Robert,
90
Gallix, Andrew,
90
Galton, Sir Francis,
3
–6,
8
–9,
17
,
191
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277
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291
,
308
,
322
,
326
Gardner, Howard,
266
,
272
–73,
275
Garfinkel, Alan,
198
Gates of Paradise (Ghiberti),
124
–25,
127
–28,
138
Gemistus, Georgius,
134
alcohol and,
38
–39
creativity and,
325
–26
Galton and,
4
,
9
,
322
,
326
and sources of genius,
4
–5,
8
–9,
62
,
291
geniuses, genius:
as adjective,
65
,
68
–69
clusters of,
8
–10,
62
,
202
,
233
,
285
compensatory,
162
–63
defining of,
2
–3,
17
–18,
35
,
84
–85,
134
,
195
,
207
,
287
–88
education of,
126
–27
familial unpredictability of,
264
finances of,
99
,
104
,
137
–38
group,
34
,
66
,
148
–49,
170
,
257
illnesses and disabilities of,
231
interstitial,
207
inventing places of,
319
,
323
–24
mistakes and failures of,
116
,
270
,
311
mythology of,
157
,
325
observation in,
81
,
123
,
165