Ideas
Subtitle: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: September 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 822
ISBN-13: 9780060935641
Subjects: History Of Civilization And Culture (General); History; History - General History; History: World; General; History / General
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.