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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... Italy the scientific community would not read a book in Latin if there was one in Italian . They " love every whit as well to read books in Italian , " Oldenburg reported to Boyle in 1665 , " as the Science Goes Public 391.
... Italy the scientific community would not read a book in Latin if there was one in Italian . They " love every whit as well to read books in Italian , " Oldenburg reported to Boyle in 1665 , " as the Science Goes Public 391.
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... Italian cities and a flourishing vernacu- lar literature in Italian would provide secular subjects for epic narrative . The first modern national anthems were being written as history . Works about Florence and Italy opened a new ...
... Italian cities and a flourishing vernacu- lar literature in Italian would provide secular subjects for epic narrative . The first modern national anthems were being written as history . Works about Florence and Italy opened a new ...
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... Italy ( 1974 ) , and in an eloquent wide - ranging study by Ricardo J. Quinones , The Ren- aissance Discovery of Time ( 1972 ) , to all of which I am much indebted . See also : Bernard Berenson , The Italian Painters of the Renaissance ...
... Italy ( 1974 ) , and in an eloquent wide - ranging study by Ricardo J. Quinones , The Ren- aissance Discovery of Time ( 1972 ) , to all of which I am much indebted . See also : Bernard Berenson , The Italian Painters of the Renaissance ...
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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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