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Description edit
Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul—offers an illuminated path... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Darwin: Add a description of this character.
- Paul
- Marx
- James
- Machiavelli
- Wagner
- William James
- Gregory
- Luther
- Muhammad
- Descartes
- Adam Smith
- Henry
- Smith
- Ptolemy
- Erasmus
- Galen
- John
- Aristotle
- Adam
- William Jones
- Conrad
- Jefferson
- Locke
- Spinoza
- Freud
- Weber
- Hippocrates
- Priestley
- Holmes
- Aquinas
- Kepler
- Gilgamesh
- Muslim
- Lyell
- Cauvin
- Herod
- Ibsen
- Mary
- Voltaire
- Rousseau
- Hutton
- David
- Breuer
- Zarathustra
- Strauss
- Durkheim
- Emerson
- Mark
- Ibn Sina
- Peter
- Hume
- Constantine
- Calvin
- Matthew
- Holland
- Leonardo
- Byron
- Roger Smith
- Alberti
- Alexander
Setting & Locations edit
- Europe
- Rome
- India
- America
- Americas
- France
- China
- England
- Paris
- Germany
- Asia
- Alexandria
- Africa
- Greece
- Italy
- Islam
- London
- Spain
- Britain
- Israel
- Jerusalem
- Athens
- Egypt
- Baghdad
- Judaism
- Mesopotamia
- Middle East
- Babylon
- Atlantic
- Venice
- Vatican
- Bologna
- Middle Ages
- Constantinople
- Cambridge
- Berlin
- Turkey
- Columbus
- Florence
- Syria
- Siberia
- Berlioz
- United States
- Uruk
- Iran
- Edinburgh
- Japan
- Temple
- Byzantium
- Hinduism
- Oxford
- Persia
- Rig Veda
- Iraq
First Sentence edit
In 1936, a collection of papers by Sir Isaac Newton, the British physicist and natural philosopher, which had been considered to be 'of no scientific value' when offered to Cambridge University some fifty years earlier, came up for auction at Sotheby's, the international salesroom, in London.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Peter Watson (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 900
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