A history of knowledge : past, present, and future /
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...
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New York, N.Y. :
Ballantine Books,
1992.
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| Edition: | 1st Ballantine Books ed. |
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Table of 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.
