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Title:Struggle to Understand : A History of Human Wonder & Discovery
Author:Herbert C Corben
ISBN:1591023858 : 9781591023852
Illustrations:b/w illus
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:398
Published:Prometheus Books - December 2008
List Price: 19.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:Not yet published
Subjects:Social & cultural history: History of ideas; intellectual history


For thousands of years, our ancestors pursued the spiritual and intellectual quests of trying to understand the world that surrounds us and the world that lies within... We shall trace these... ideas through their successes and failures, through brilliant developments obstinately opposed or ignored, the lucky guesses, the incorrect hypotheses strongly clung to, and the personal dangers that were the rewards of many scholars who struggled to understand them...