A History of Knowledge
Subtitle: Past, Present, and Future
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: March 17, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780345373168
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; World - General; History: World; History - General History; Civilization; History / Civilization; History; Intellectual life; Learning and scholarship
First sentence: BY THE TIME written history began, some fifty centuries ago, mankind had learned much more than our primitive ancestors knew.