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Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This trade book takes on the widely-shared belief that learning the history of something always contributes to understanding it, is often the best way to do so, and sometimes is the only way. The aim is to explain away these three beliefs, to show why historical narrative is always, always wrong, not just incomplete or inaccurate or unfounded, but mistaken the way Ptolemaic astronomy or Phlogiston chemistry is wrong. The resources employed to do...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
Español
Description
El hombre se ha dispersado por toda la galaxia. La capital del Imperio es Trantor, nido de intrigas y corrupcion. Gracias a su ciencia, fundada en el estudio matematico de los hechos historicos y el comportamiento de las masas, el psicohistoriador Hari Seldon preve la caida del Imperio y el retorno a la barbarie durante varios milenios. A fin de reducir este periodo de barbarie a mil anos, Seldon decide crear una Fundacion en un extremo de la galaxia....
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