The Essential Knowledge

“You can't not want to know!" - Who agrees with this thought of Robert Musil will get his money's worth in the "essential knowledge". Ernst Peter Fischer, one of the most renowned German historians of science has created a small vademecum of the basic knowledge that one should always have at hand and that is worth thinking about again and again. Without stringing together facts like a telephone book, he tells us briefly and vividly about the most important milestones in the development of nature and mankind from the beginnings of energy to the digitalization of our world.