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A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future
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A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future Paperback - 1992

by Van Doren, Charles

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  • Title A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future
  • Author Van Doren, Charles
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition UsedAcceptable
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine Books, New York
  • Date March 17, 1992
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 31UI56007VRR_ns
  • ISBN 9780345373168 / 0345373162
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.13 x 0.78 in (23.37 x 15.57 x 1.98 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Intellectual life - History, Learning and scholarship - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91092141
  • Dewey Decimal Code 001

First line

BY THE TIME written history began, some fifty centuries ago, mankind had learned much more than our primitive ancestors knew.

From the jacket flap

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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  • Publishers Weekly, 04/06/1992, Page 0

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.

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