Ideas
Subtitle: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: August 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 848
ISBN-13: 9780066210643
Subjects: World - General; Intellectual History; History Of Civilization And Culture (General); History; History - General History; History: World; Intellectual life; History / General; General; Civilization
First sentence: 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.