Ignorance
A Global History
ISBN: PB: 9780300276503,
ISBN: HB: 9780300265958,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
256 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
256 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day.
Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of darkne...
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Polymath
A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
ISBN: PB: 9780300260465,
Yale University Press,
July 2021
352 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 24 colour illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 24 colour illus.
From Leonardo da Vinci and John Dee to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge. Nonetheless, in our current age of specialization, polymaths are often remembered for only one part of their varied achievements....
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