What Happened in History?

By V. Gordon Childe,

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1 author picked What Happened in History? as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

While this book is not about science, it gives the social context for how ancient scientific and anti-scientific ideas developed in slave-owning societies and before. It is the best description of the development of human society to the end of the ancient period that I’ve ever read.

Unfortunately, some of the anti-science ideas of ancient slave-owners, discredited in the scientific revolution, are still with us today, and Child explains how they came to be.

From Eric's list on demystify science.

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