The book encompasses the history of science in the broadest sense, as an expression of man's ability to understand nature, to rule it, and not to be ruled by it.
Bronowski, a famous British mathematician and biologist, explores the development of science as an expression of human creativity and intellect.
The monograph includes, in addition to numerous pictures in the text, a plan of the cemetery, 434 drawings and 350 photographs of skeletons and 191 drawings of grave finds, more than 100 tabular representations and more than 50 typological drawings and ma
The author, one of the living eyewitnesses of the excavations in the Valley of the Kings, provides the reader with a popular-scientific picture not only of one of the most famous ancient Egyptian rulers, but also of the most interesting facts of the ethno