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James Burke's Connections (companion to his 1978 television series of the same name) does this in fair part, though it tracks a number of distinct (and somewhat idiosyncratic) paths through time.

<https://openlibrary.org/search?isbn=9780333248270>

There's Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China though that's not exactly a coffee-table book. It's staggering in its own way, however:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_Ch...>



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