How long does it take to read The Western Intellectual Tradition from Leonardo to Hegel?
J. Bronowski, Bruce Mazlish
The Western Intellectual Tradition from Leonardo to Hegel by J. Bronowski, Bruce Mazlish takes about 9 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 34 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1960. 522 pages, about 143,550 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is intellectual history in the largest sense, not confined to ideas in one or a few fields, but covering the whole spectrum of Western intellectual activity during the four centuries when the world was transformed from medieval to modern. An important feature of the book is its stress on the interplay of ideas from different fields. In particular, the authors give more attention than is usual to the ideas of science, to the movements of literary style, and to the innovations in the arts. This is a profound and evocative history of the life of ideas in their full setting: of men, of groups of men, of events.
Subjects: Civilisation moderne et contemporaine, Filosofia moderna, Modern Civilization, Civilización moderna, Philosophie, Modern Philosophy
