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<p><p>&#160; <i>the Book Of Firsts </i>is An Entertaining, Enlightening, And Highly Browsable Tour Of The Major Innovations Of The Past Twenty Centuries And How They Shaped Our World.<br><br>peter D&rsquo;epiro Makes This Handy Overview Of Human History Both Fun And Thought-provoking With His Survey Of The Major &ldquo;firsts&rdquo;&mdash;inventions, Discoveries, Political And Military Upheavals, Artistic And Scientific Breakthroughs, Religious Controversies, And Catastrophic Events&mdash;of The Last Two Thousand Years. Who Was The First To Use Gunpowder? Invent Paper? Sack The City Of Rome? Write A Sonnet? What Was The First University? The First Astronomical Telescope? The First Great Novel? The First Impressionist Painting? <i>the Book Of Firsts </i>explores These Questions And Many More, From The Earliest Surviving Cookbook (featuring Parboiled Flamingo) And The Origin Of Chess (sixth-century India) To The First Civil Service Exam (china In 606 Ad) And The First Tell-all Memoir About Scandalous Royals (byzantine Emperor Justinian And Empress Theodora). In The Form Of 150 Brief, Witty, Erudite, And Information-packed Essays, <i>the Book Of Firsts</i> Is Ideal For Anyone Interest

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Author

D'Epiro, Peter

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307388438

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Science, Philosophy

Rating

3.71 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13