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The Grand Contraption: The World As Myth, Number, And Chance
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Princeton Univ Pr
Publication date
March 15, 2005
Pages
331
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780691121338
ISBN-10
0691121338
Dimensions
1 by 6.40 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.35 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$45.00
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The story of humankind's attempts to make sense of the world, understand its physical nature, and know its real and imagined inhabitants is chronicled in an in-depth study that brings together the fields of history, philosophy, literature, religion, and the physical sciences in an analysis of four thousand years of written history in which humans have imagined the earth they inhabit.
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Hardcover
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from Princeton Univ Pr (March 15, 2005)
9780691121338 | details & prices | 331 pages | 6.40 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $45.00
About: The story of humankind's attempts to make sense of the world, understand its physical nature, and know its real and imagined inhabitants is chronicled in an in-depth study that brings together the fields of history, philosophy, literature, religion, and the physical sciences.
About: The story of humankind's attempts to make sense of the world, understand its physical nature, and know its real and imagined inhabitants is chronicled in an in-depth study that brings together the fields of history, philosophy, literature, religion, and the physical sciences.
Paperback
from Princeton Univ Pr (April 3, 2007); titled "The Grand Contraption: The World As Myth, Number and Chance"
9780691130538 | details & prices | 331 pages | 5.50 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $31.95
About: The Grand Contraption tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants.
About: The Grand Contraption tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants.
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