# A History of Knowledge

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- Book: [A History of Knowledge](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-van-doren/a-history-of-knowledge) ([A History of Knowledge.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-van-doren/a-history-of-knowledge.md))
- Authors: [Charles Van Doren](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-van-doren)
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- ISBN: 978-03-4537-316-8
- Pages: 448
- Published: 1992-03-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...