A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future - Hardcover

Van Doren, Charles Lincoln

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559720379 ISBN 13: 9781559720373

Publisher: Birch Lane Pr, 1991

Synopsis

Covers every aspect of knowledge--scientific, intellectual, and historical--from the beginning of the human experience into the twenty-first century and beyond

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From the Inside Flap:

reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and yet totally accessible, 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.
"Crystal clear and concise...Explains how humankind got to know what it knows."
Clifton Fadiman
Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club

About the Author:

Charles Van Doren has advanced degrees in both literature and mathematics and has written and edited more than a score of books, many of them in the field of history. He is the author of The Joy of Reading and A History of Knowledge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Birch Lane Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1559720379
• ISBN 13: 9781559720373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 422