Description
Hardly anyone among us is unfamiliar with the legendary film The Emperor's Baker and the Baker's Emperor. One cannot help but recall it while reading this book. It discusses how our ancestors learned to recognize the world around them and what tools they used for that. How they adventurously and often painfully navigated from faith and superstition to the knowledge that everything is different from how it had previously appeared or – more precisely – how it was thought and preached. From astrology to astronomy, from alchemy to physics and chemistry, from folk medicine to medicine, simply from tales and fabrications to real science as we know it today. How the view of the role and significance of knowledge and its protagonists changed, among whom there are true researchers and scholars, but also various fraudsters and pretenders. And how what was once learnedness is often charlatanism today, and what was previously heresy is now a bold idea.
Information
Author: Koutský Karel
Publication date: February 16, 2015
Manufacturer: Miloš Uhlíř - BASET
Genres: Non-fiction literature, Non-fiction literature, Books, History and facts
Type: Hardcover books
Pages: 359
ISBN/EAN: 9788073401542