A History of Knowledge
by Charles Lincoln Van Doren · first published 1992
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…Trial of Socrates, by I.F. Stone (makes the case that Socrates was a genuine threat to his society) Any book by Ryszard Kapuscinski The Histories, by Herodotus To Engineer is Human, by Petroski A History of Knowledge, by Charles Van Doren
on “Ask HN: Books That Gratify One's Intellectual Curiosity?” ↗"Think what we please, and say what we think—how better to sum up the happiness of political freedom? And the reverse is pure tyranny." - A History of Knowledge, Charles Van Doren.
on “MIT Abandons Its Mission. and Me” ↗