The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
067174271X
ISBN 13
9780671742713
Category
900-929 Geography, History & Biographies
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Publication Year
1991
Publisher
Pages
736
Subject
Chronology, Historical -- Tables. World history -- Chronology. Chronologie historique -- Tableaux, graphiques, etc.
Abstract
The classic history reference, brought completely up to date, linking more than 30,000 events in an overview of 7,000 years of civilization. The Timetables of History is an indispensable resource that distills the essence of civilization, highlighting significant moments in history, politics, philosophy, religion, art, science and technology. 2 color throughout. Vast and absorbing, spanning millennia of human history, The Timetables of History, achieves a goal in the study of the past that is unmatched by any other reference volume -- it gives us a sweeping overview of the making of the contemporary world. This remarkable book maps out at a glance what was happening simultaneously, from the dawn of history to the present day. Never before has progress been presented with such clarity or with a view that fully captures the essence and the excitement of civilization.
Description
Provides a chronology of seven thousand years of significant moments in history, religion, science, and the arts in an accessible format designed for quick reference.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Reference works
Tables
Chronology
Tableaux, graphiques, etc
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Grun, Bernard, 1901-1972.
Timetables of history.
New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1991
(OCoLC)656314760
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Bernard Grun; Werner Stein
ISBN: 0671749196 9780671749194 067174271X 9780671742713
OCLC Number: 25548495
Notes: "A Touchstone book."
"Based on Werner Stein's Kulturfahrplan."
Includes index.
Description: 724 pages ; 29 cm.
Contents: Science before there were scientists : 2,400,000-59 BC --
Greek and Hellinistic science : 600 BC-529 AD --
Science in many lands and medieval science : 530-1452 --
The Renaissance and the scientific revolution : 1453-1659 --
The Newtonian epoch : 1660-1734 --
The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution : 1735-1819 --
Nineteenth-century science : 1820-1984 [sic] [1894] --
Twentieth-century science through World War II : 1895-1945 --
Science after World War II : 1946-1988.
Series Title: A Touchstone book
Responsibility: Bernard Grun.
Tables
Chronology
Tableaux, graphiques, etc
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Grun, Bernard, 1901-1972.
Timetables of history.
New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1991
(OCoLC)656314760
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Bernard Grun; Werner Stein
ISBN: 0671749196 9780671749194 067174271X 9780671742713
OCLC Number: 25548495
Notes: "A Touchstone book."
"Based on Werner Stein's Kulturfahrplan."
Includes index.
Description: 724 pages ; 29 cm.
Contents: Science before there were scientists : 2,400,000-59 BC --
Greek and Hellinistic science : 600 BC-529 AD --
Science in many lands and medieval science : 530-1452 --
The Renaissance and the scientific revolution : 1453-1659 --
The Newtonian epoch : 1660-1734 --
The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution : 1735-1819 --
Nineteenth-century science : 1820-1984 [sic] [1894] --
Twentieth-century science through World War II : 1895-1945 --
Science after World War II : 1946-1988.
Series Title: A Touchstone book
Responsibility: Bernard Grun.
Number of Copies
1
