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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Karl Marx: Add a description of this character.
- Don Giovanni
- Aristotle
- John Locke
- Kepler
- Descartes
- Einstein
- Averroes
- Seneca
- Henry
- Alexander
- Cromwell
- Abelard
- Pico
- Jefferson
- Don Quixote
- Thomas Aquinas
- Augustine
- Luther
- Mary
- Adam Smith
- Shih Huang-ti
- Constantine
- Marco
- Mcluhan
- Lucretius
- Abraham
- Gretchen
- Don Juan
- Paul
- Gutenberg
- Le Corbusier
- Laura
- Mephistopheles
- Caesar
- Kafka
- Leonardo
- Lincoln
- Tycho
- Darwin
- Gilbert
- Hitler
- Socrates
- Beatrice
- Freud
- Magellan
- Muhammad
Setting & Locations edit
- Europe
- Rome
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- England
- China
- United States
- Egypt
- Spain
- India
- Boccaccio
- Greece
- North America
- Paris
- Athens
- North Africa
- Asia
- Britain
- Goethe
- Islam
- Japan
- Florence
- Russia
- Nero
- Mesopotamia
- Petrarch
- Columbus
- London
- Persia
- Jupiter
- Soviet Union
- Born
- Middle Ages
- Byzantium
- Carthage
- Venice
- Mars
- Gaul
- Atlantic
- Alexandria
- New York
- Hiroshima
- Jerusalem
- Ravenna
- Miletus
- Iran
- Leporello
First Sentence edit
BY THE TIME written history began, some fifty centuries ago, mankind had learned much more than our primitive ancestors knew.
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Page Count: 412
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Page Count: 412
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- Dewey: 001
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Historical Study › History of Ideas
- Books › History › Historical Study › Reference
- Books › History › Ancient › Early Civilization
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy
- Books › History › World
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