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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...

Struggle to Understand: A History of Human Wonder

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    Publisher: Prometheus Books
    Publication Date: 14/03/2008
    ISBN13: 9781591023852, 978-1591023852
    ISBN10: 1591023858
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    Book Synopsis
    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...

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