![]() ![]() ![]() OL1088357W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.60 Pages 938 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:004109008X OL18162408M Openlibrary_subject long_now_manual_for_civilization Openlibrary_work Urn:lcp:historyofwestern00russ:lcpdf:68ee8773-a8fe-4141-8e4f-43995f1dac77 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier historyofwestern00russ Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9f48cz6q Isbn 0671314009Ġ671201581 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition He was not only personally unsympathetic to the figures, the state of scholarly research on medieval philosophy at the time was atrocious. Especially dont take anything he says about medieval philosophy that seriously. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:03:43 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA110923 Camera Canon 5D City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 60th print. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, was a Welsh philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist. Russells history is a classic, but its dated. ![]()
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