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In our time of computer technology, amazing discoveries in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology and genetics, the humanities have been relegated to the background in the public consciousness, taken a secondary place and at first glance are considered not as important as the exact sciences. But we shouldn't forget that the humanities are the first pre-science from which all the exact sciences later emerged.

Rance Bod, Professor of Information and Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, has created the first accessible overview of the history of the humanities from their inception (c. 600 BC) to the beginning of the 21st century.