A history of knowledge : past, present, and future /
Charles Van Doren.
- xxv, 422 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
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