The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events, Based on Werner Stein's KulturfahrplanThe Timetables of History spans millennia of human history. Unlike any other reference volume, this book gives a sweeping overview of the making of the contemporary world by mapping out at a glance what was happening simultaneously, from the dawn of history to the present day. |
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... ( posth . ) Philip Massinger : " A New Way to Pay Old Debts , " comedy Outbreak of plague in Bavaria leads to passion ... ( posth . ) John Ford : " Perkin Warbeck , " historical drama Jean Mairet : " Sophonisbe , " first classical Fr ...
... ( posth . ) Philip Massinger : " A New Way to Pay Old Debts , " comedy Outbreak of plague in Bavaria leads to passion ... ( posth . ) John Ford : " Perkin Warbeck , " historical drama Jean Mairet : " Sophonisbe , " first classical Fr ...
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... ( posth . ) RELIGION , PHILOSOPHY , LEARNING Pierre Borel : " Trésor des recherches et antiquités Gauloises " Oliver Cromwell readmits Jews into England William Drummond : " A History of the Five Jameses " ( posth . ) Thomas Fuller ...
... ( posth . ) RELIGION , PHILOSOPHY , LEARNING Pierre Borel : " Trésor des recherches et antiquités Gauloises " Oliver Cromwell readmits Jews into England William Drummond : " A History of the Five Jameses " ( posth . ) Thomas Fuller ...
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... ( posth . ) Blaise Pascal , Fr. philosopher , d . ( b . 1623 ) Robert Boyle : " Concerning the Usefulness of Experimental Philosophy " Lord Herbert of Cherbury : " De religione gentilium " ( posth . ) Writings of Descartes put on the ...
... ( posth . ) Blaise Pascal , Fr. philosopher , d . ( b . 1623 ) Robert Boyle : " Concerning the Usefulness of Experimental Philosophy " Lord Herbert of Cherbury : " De religione gentilium " ( posth . ) Writings of Descartes put on the ...
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