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What if we would tell history in a different way? Instead of talking about wars, colonialism, struggle and princes and presidents... we could instead maybe talk about the history of human knowledge.

In this episode I want to share with you 7 books that tell our human story in a different way... I hope you enjoy the episode 🌟📚📖😁🌟:

0:00 Intro to the episode
1:25 Why telling history differently?
3:19 Book 1: The Darkening Age - Cathrine Nixey
5:09 Book 2: The Map of Knowledge - Violet Moller -
Full episode about this book here:    • How does knowledge travel through time?  
7:12 Book 3: The Swerve - Stephen Greenblatt
Full episode about this book here:    • How the Renaissance Started A very co...  
9:13 Intermediate conclusion - the detours of knowledge
10:28 Book 4: The Light Ages - Seb Falk

12:34 The Astrolabe - Geoffrey Chaucer - Mashallah ibn Athari
14:25 Montolieu and the Polestar - Startrail image

16:57 Book 5: Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of experimental science - A.C. Crombie
18:49 Book 6: Infinitesimal - Amir Alexander
21:16 Book 7: Burning the Books - A history of knowledge under attack - Richard Ovenden
Full episode about this book here:    • BBX - Why do Humans Burn Books?  
Podcast episode with Richard Ovenden here:    • Our Knowledge Under Attack-BBX Podcas...  

22:52 Conclusion and quote by al Nadim