Europe
Subtitle: A Cultural History
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 7, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780415172301
First sentence: Already in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, some European scholars were searching for the origins of man in a past far remote from and in developments more complex than the simple picture derived by most of their contemporaries from the Christian Bible, which for many Europeans was still the only touchstone of truth, teaching that the earth and man came into existence when God created the universe on the morning of a momentous day in the year 4004 BC.