World Of Patterns by Rens Bod Paperback Book

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World Of Patterns by Rens Bod Paperback Book

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World Of Patterns by Rens Bod Paperback Book

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A comprehensive account of the methods of knowledge production throughout human history and across the globe. The idea that the world can be understood through patterns and the principles that govern them is one of the most important human insightsit may also be our greatest survival strategy. Our search for patterns and principles began 40000 years ago when striped patterns were engraved on mammoths bones to keep track of the moons phases. What routes did human knowledge take to grow from these humble beginnings through many detours and dead ends into modern understandings of nature and culture In this work of unprecedented scope Rens Bod removes the Western natural sciences from their oftencentral role to bring us the first global history of human knowledge. Having sketched the history of the humanities in his groundbreaking A New History of the Humanities Bod now adopts a broader perspective stepping beyond classical antiquity back to the Stone Age to answer the question Where did our knowledge of the world today begin and how did it develop Drawing on developments from all five continents of the inhabited world World of Patterns offers startling connections. Focusing on a dozen fieldsranging from astronomy philology medicine law and mathematics to history botany and musicologyBod examines to what degree their progressions can be considered interwoven and to what degree we can speak of global trends.In this pioneering work Bod aims to fulfill what he sees as the historians responsibility to grant access to historys goldmine of ideas. Bod discusses how inoculation was invented in China rather than Europe how many of the fundamental aspects of modern mathematics and astronomy were first discovered by the Indian Kerala school and how the study of law provided fundamental models for astronomy and linguistics from Roman to Ottoman times. The book flies across continents and eras. The result is an enlightening symphony a stirring chorus of human inquisitiveness extendi
  • ブランド: Unbranded
  • カテゴリー: 科学、医学、自然
  • フォーマット: Hardback
  • 刊行日: 2022-07-05
  • 著者: Rens Bod
  • 言語: English
  • 出版社 / レコード会社: Johns Hopkins Univer
  • Fruugo ID: 90285928-188418876
  • ISBN: 9781421443447

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