Simon Garfield’s new book, “All the Knowledge in the World,” is a fascinating history of the encyclopedia and what we have lost as it becomes obsolete.

SHORES OF KNOWLEDGE New World Discoveries by Joyce Appleby December 13, 2013 More than 11 years ago Christopher Columbus returned in 1493 from his first voyage with a bit of gold to entice royal ...

New book poses provocative question about human knowledge By Jim McLauchlin August 18, 2016 / 4:20 PM EDT / Livescience.com ...

The life and death of the encyclopedia is recounted in Simon Garfield’s excellent new book. Mr. Garfield, an Englishman in his early 60s, is lucid, witty, learned and clearly a bibliomaniac, who ...

Science and literature alike are readers of the world. And, sooner or later, both lead us to the unreadable, the boundary at which the unintelligible begins.

John Gribbon reviews "The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning," by Marcelo Gleiser In 1900, Lord Kelvin declared that there was "nothing new to be discovered in ...

Science and reason generate reliable knowledge about the world, but they have their limits. Exploring them can shed light on what knowledge really is, and should help us gain more of it 11 January ...