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A history of knowledge : past, present, and future
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A history of knowledge : past, present, and future

Author: Charles Lincoln Van Doren
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Ballantine Books, 1992. (A25-91/92)
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English : 1st Ballantine Books edView all editions and formats
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Here is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. A History of Knowledge covers not only all the great theories and discoveries of the human race, but also explores the social conditions, political climates, and individual men and women of genius that brought ideas to fruition throughout  Read more...
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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charles Lincoln Van Doren
ISBN: 0345373162 : 9780345373168
OCLC Number: 25611418
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xxv, 422 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Wisdom of the ancients -- The Greek explosion -- What the Romans knew -- Light in the Dark Ages -- The Middle Ages: the great experiment -- What was reborn in the Renaissance -- Europe reaches out -- The invention of scientific method -- An age of revolutions -- The nineteenth century: prelude to modernity -- The world in 1914 -- The twentieth century: the triumph of democracy -- The twentieth century: science and technology -- The twentieth century: art and the media -- The next hundred years.
Responsibility: Charles Van Doren.

Abstract:

Here is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. A History of Knowledge covers not only all the great theories and discoveries of the human race, but also explores the social conditions, political climates, and individual men and women of genius that brought ideas to fruition throughout history. --from publisher description

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