Reinventing knowledge : from Alexandria to the Internet
An intellectual history of the key institutions that organized knowledge in the western world offers insight into primary cultural transformations that took place from the classical period to the present.
Print Book, English, 2008
1. ed
W.W. Norton, New York, 2008
History
Seiten
9780393065060, 9780393337716, 0393065065, 0393337715
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| INTRODUCTION | xi | ||
| 1. The Library | 1 | ||
| 2. The Monastery | 37 | ||
| 3. The University | 77 | ||
| 4. The Republic of Letters | 119 | ||
| 5. The Disciplines | 161 | ||
| 6. The Laboratory | 205 | ||
| CONCLUSION | 251 | ||
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 275 | ||
| NOTES | 277 | ||
| INDEX | 303 |