Reinventing knowledge : from Alexandria to the Internet /
Ian F. McNeely with Lisa Wolverton.
- New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 2009.
- xxii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Originally published: 2008
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The library -- The monastery -- The university -- The republic of letters -- The disciplines -- The laboratory
A compact, original, dazzling history of Western culture via the institutions that have shaped knowledge from the classical period to the present
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Intellectual life--History. Vida intelectual --Historia Civilización moderna Civilización occidental Learning and scholarship--History. Conocimiento y erudición Savoir et erudition--Histoire. Civilisation occidentale--Histoire. Civilisation moderne et contemporaine--Histoire.