A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future (1991)

by Charles Van Doren

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While slightly fusty by modern 'literary non-fiction' standards, this book has been a beginner history/philosophy student stand-by for a long time. Not the type of book you read from cover to cover in one sitting, but worth having on the shelf for reference value (

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345373162, Paperback)

A one-voume 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

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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 conditions, political climates, and individual men and women of genius that brought ideas to fruition throughout history. --from publisher description… (more)