Van Doren, once editorial director of the Encyclopedia Brittanica , has produced a miniature encyclopedia, organized to show that there is progress in knowledge. He praises Columbus for giving us "a world well on the way to the unity it experiences today." India is mentioned as the source of the caste system. The Chinese gave us Confucius, but Van Doren notes their main legacy seems to be good recipes for tyranny. He warns that some good knowledge is unpleasant: we must now control our technology. Ultimately, the best knowledge for him is Western scientific knowledge since it is cumulative, meaning that better theories nearly always replace worse ones. An avid reader of Popular Mechanics who went to sleep in Peoria, Illinois in 1920 and awoke today with this book in her/his hands would probably find their ideals intact, needing only new technical knowledge and preparation for Van Doren's predicted revolt of intelligent machines. Van Doren has distilled the ideology of scientific progress into a neat, short drink that should win him a place on every library shelf.
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 covers not only all the great theories and discoveries of the human race, but also explores the social conditions, political climates, and individual men and women of genius that brought ideas to fruition throughout history.
"Crystal clear and concise...Explains how humankind got to know what it knows."
Clifton Fadiman
Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club
發表於2025-03-12
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1.買它幾乎完全是因為作者是Charles Van Doren,本人最愛的how to read a book的作者之一~~ 2.詞匯變化確實挺豐富,適閤剛上手讀原版書不久的同學擴充詞匯,不過這也是個見仁見智的問題。。。 3.這本書的討論對象是整個人類知識general knowledge而不是僅僅有某門學科知識的...
評分1.買它幾乎完全是因為作者是Charles Van Doren,本人最愛的how to read a book的作者之一~~ 2.詞匯變化確實挺豐富,適閤剛上手讀原版書不久的同學擴充詞匯,不過這也是個見仁見智的問題。。。 3.這本書的討論對象是整個人類知識general knowledge而不是僅僅有某門學科知識的...
評分發現好多人在找這本書,而此書還沒有評論。我就先“戰戰兢兢”碼幾行字。各位親愛的G友們,不要因為沒有看這本書而煩惱。 北美範文上推薦的所有原版書我基本上都讀過。 包括這一本和那本比較貴的the world's greatest ideas。 還有一堆七七八八的原版雜誌。 我並不是期望看這些...
評分發現好多人在找這本書,而此書還沒有評論。我就先“戰戰兢兢”碼幾行字。各位親愛的G友們,不要因為沒有看這本書而煩惱。 北美範文上推薦的所有原版書我基本上都讀過。 包括這一本和那本比較貴的the world's greatest ideas。 還有一堆七七八八的原版雜誌。 我並不是期望看這些...
評分發現好多人在找這本書,而此書還沒有評論。我就先“戰戰兢兢”碼幾行字。各位親愛的G友們,不要因為沒有看這本書而煩惱。 北美範文上推薦的所有原版書我基本上都讀過。 包括這一本和那本比較貴的the world's greatest ideas。 還有一堆七七八八的原版雜誌。 我並不是期望看這些...
圖書標籤: 曆史 GRE 英文原版 知識簡史 issue 英文版 英文書 學習
為瞭準備G看的,但是發現自己有點讀不下去..有生之年希望能看完
評分對我的思維有非常大的啓發,還有作者的語言真的很issue,很GRE,雖然裏麵有許多常識性的錯誤,比如說秦始皇廢除封建提倡儒術
評分為瞭準備G看的,但是發現自己有點讀不下去..有生之年希望能看完
評分第一次覺得學術書也是好看的。= =Van Doren把曆史分成小小的故事來講而且用的語言還挺易懂的。我愛你啊VD!!!你比Noll好一萬倍!!!
評分作為通識百科,雖然不夠客觀全麵,但文筆還是不錯的。不過作者對於東方文明實在是缺乏瞭解,相關章節應歸入“虛構作品”
A History of Knowledge 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載