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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... Ocean , than it really was . These " facts " from Ptolemy eventually lured Columbus westward . Meanwhile other errors on " Ptolemy's " classic world map would have proved that it was impossible to reach India and China by sailing ...
... Ocean , than it really was . These " facts " from Ptolemy eventually lured Columbus westward . Meanwhile other errors on " Ptolemy's " classic world map would have proved that it was impossible to reach India and China by sailing ...
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... Ocean Sea , from mare oceanum , and was opposed to the Mediterranean inland sea or the other inland seas . Christian map - makers in the Middle Ages generally followed the ancient Greek legends and depicted the habitable parts of the ...
... Ocean Sea , from mare oceanum , and was opposed to the Mediterranean inland sea or the other inland seas . Christian map - makers in the Middle Ages generally followed the ancient Greek legends and depicted the habitable parts of the ...
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... Ocean . The consequences reached around the world . Much Italian splendor had been based on the wealth of the East ... Ocean to the Indian Ocean , as we are accustomed to say , then obviously there also was a sea passage from the Indian ...
... Ocean . The consequences reached around the world . Much Italian splendor had been based on the wealth of the East ... Ocean to the Indian Ocean , as we are accustomed to say , then obviously there also was a sea passage from the Indian ...
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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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