![]() One could claim that the most important inventions date from prehistory, and that "history" has been nothing more than an application of those inventions. Knowledge has been, first and foremost, a tool to become the "subject" of change, as opposed to being the "object" of change. How this happened to be is pretty much the history of knowledge. Over the course of many centuries, humans have managed to change the equation in their favor, reducing the impact of natural events on their civilization and increasing the impact of their civilization on nature (for better and for worse). Religion, Science and Art were largely determined by extra-human factors, such as seasons and floods. When the earliest civilizations appeared (in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China), they were largely constrained by their natural environment and by the climate. TM, ®, Copyright © 2011 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved. ![]() This was born as the textbook for a UC Berkeley class. Reader of a UC Berkeley course and now also a A History of Knowledge A Brief History of Knowledge
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