La Tierra

Nuestros ancestros, los mesopotámicos, inventaron la escritura y gracias a ella pudieron mirar el mundo que los rodeaba de una manera diferente, y al tiempo construyeron una nueva forma de pensar, de analizar, de ordenar como jamás le hubiera permitido la tradición oral. En la búsqueda de la razón última de ser de este universo y del último sentido de nuestra existencia humana, edificaron toda una suntuosa y sabia mitología que anunciaba ya entonces aquella con la que Israel construirá su " teología " , que sigue siendo la nuestra. Jean Bottéro pretende en este libro acercarse al...

From the first crude stone tools used by man two-and-a-half million years ago up to the early medieval period, this eye-opening journey through human innovations draws on modern science and the latest research to explore some of history's most fascinating inventions. Beginning with the basic technologies of stone and fire, bone and wood, the survey moves on to answer such fundamental questions as How and where did agriculture evolve? and How did Romans and others heat and plumb their dwellings? This unique guide to some of humanity's most remarkable inventions is a testimony to the brilliant...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...