A history of knowledge : past, present, and future / Charles Van Doren.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Carol Pub. Group, c1991.Description: xxv, 422 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1559720379 :{dollar}22.95
  • 0-345-37316-2
  • 978-0-345-37316-8
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 001.09 23/swe
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
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"A Birch Lane Press book."

Includes index.

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