The Discoverers, Band 2Random House, 1983 - 745 Seiten Examines the human quest for knowledge and discoveries as it discusses such men as Galileo, Adam Smith, Columbus, Marx, Napoleon, Magellan, Faraday, Freud, Marco Polo, and St. Augustine. |
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... America , which is far from saying that they " discovered " America . Their settlement across the stormy ocean was an act of physical but not of spiritual courage . What they did in America did not change their own or anybody else's ...
... America , which is far from saying that they " discovered " America . Their settlement across the stormy ocean was an act of physical but not of spiritual courage . What they did in America did not change their own or anybody else's ...
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... America " was inscribed showed a contour remarkably similar to its actual shape . On the inset map the two Americas were actually connected . Farther west appeared a whole new ocean , broader than the Atlantic , separating the New World ...
... America " was inscribed showed a contour remarkably similar to its actual shape . On the inset map the two Americas were actually connected . Farther west appeared a whole new ocean , broader than the Atlantic , separating the New World ...
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... America , and many of those of America were new to Europe . A new set of exchanges , therefore , began to take place which had never been thought of before , and which should naturally have proved as advantageous to the new , as it ...
... America , and many of those of America were new to Europe . A new set of exchanges , therefore , began to take place which had never been thought of before , and which should naturally have proved as advantageous to the new , as it ...
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FROM SUN TIME TO CLOCK TIME | 26 |
THE MISSIONARY CLOCK | 56 |
THE EARTH AND THE SEAS | 79 |
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself Daniel J. Boorstin Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1985 |
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