Doren Charles Van. A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future

Ballantine Books, 1992. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0-345-37316-2.A one-volume 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.Author to Reader.
Wisdom of the Ancients.
The Greek Explosion.
What the Romans Knew.
Light in the Dark Ages.
The Middle Ages: The Great Experiment.
What Was Reborn in the Renaissance?
Europe Reaches Out.
The Invention of Scientific Method.
An Age of Revolutions.
The Nineteenth Century: Prelude to Modernity.
The World in 1914.
The Twentieth Century: The Triumph of Democracy.
The Twentieth Century: Science and Technology.
The Twentieth Century: Art and the Media.
The Next Hundred Years.