The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places From Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley (57 page)

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
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107
,
118
,
125
,
137
,
194
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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
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20
,
97
–99,
102
–3,
107
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118
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120
,
122
–26,
128
–30,
135
–38,
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194
,
220
,
288
,
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,
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

flyting,
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,
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,
179
,
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Forster, E. M.,
139

Foster, William,
296

France,
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23
,
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90
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155
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162
–63,
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220
,
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,
233
,
321

Franklin, Benjamin,
142
,
147
,
287

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke,
284

Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria,
251
,
282
–83

Freeman, Walter,
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–97

Freud, Sigmund,
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76
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126
,
241
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–78,
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,
324

cafés and,
15
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229
,
263

clutter of,
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–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
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82
,
217
–18,
229
,
249
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,
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–67,
269
–70,
272
–74,
276
–78,
281
,
283

Friederike,
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–36,
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–42,
248

Frost, Robert,
90

Galileo,
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,
269
,
296

Gallix, Andrew,
90

Galton, Sir Francis,
3
–6,
8
–9,
17
,
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,
277
,
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,
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,
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,
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Galton Box,
3
–5,
325

Gardner, Howard,
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,
272
–73,
275

Garfinkel, Alan,
198

Gates, Bill,
81
,
103
,
126

Gates of Paradise (Ghiberti),
124
–25,
127
–28,
138

Gay, Peter,
225
,
244
,
264
,
273
–74

Gemistus, Georgius,
134

genetics,
10
,
137
,
148
,
277
,
310

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,
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,
270
,
311

mythology of,
157
,
325

observation in,
81
,
123
,
165