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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... English . But after the Norman Conquest , French was the official language at court . Only gradually did English displace French . By then , of course , English was full of words of Latin and French origin . In England the establishment ...
... English . But after the Norman Conquest , French was the official language at court . Only gradually did English displace French . By then , of course , English was full of words of Latin and French origin . In England the establishment ...
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... English was established empirically and by individuals , by contrast with the product elsewhere of state - supported academies . Since the early English Protestants wanted to help ordinary readers understand the Bible in English , the ...
... English was established empirically and by individuals , by contrast with the product elsewhere of state - supported academies . Since the early English Protestants wanted to help ordinary readers understand the Bible in English , the ...
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... English dictionary by Robert and Thomas Cawdrey , schoolmaster father and son , entitled A Table Alphabeticall , conteyning and teaching the true writing and under- standing of hard usuall English wordes , borrowed from the Hebrew ...
... English dictionary by Robert and Thomas Cawdrey , schoolmaster father and son , entitled A Table Alphabeticall , conteyning and teaching the true writing and under- standing of hard usuall English wordes , borrowed from the Hebrew ...
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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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