The Glass Bead Game
1943 · 558 pages
Centuries from now, scholars in the cloistered province of Castalia play a game fusing music, mathematics, and all learning. Joseph Knecht rises to master it, then asks what the world outside is owed.
★ 6.5
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The Discoverers
1983 · 745 pages
The obstacle to discovery was never ignorance but the illusion of knowledge, Boorstin argues, then walks through the clock, the compass and the microscope as victories over what everyone was certain of.
★ 6.6