World of Patterns : A Global History of Knowledge /
"Though fields such as art history, the history of philosophy, and intellectual history have been around for a long time, the author's interest is in the history of what scholars in all of these fields are doing in common. This book looks beyond the humanities to the practice of discipline...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: The most beautiful thing about knowledge
- Introduction. Understanding the world through patterns and principles
- The awareness of patterns : prehistory
- The explosion of patterns and the awareness of principles : early antiquity
- The explosion of principles and the awareness of deductions : classical antiquity
- The reduction of principles : post-classical period
- The discovery of patterns in deductions : the modern era
- Conclusion: The origin, growth, and future of knowledge.