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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... coast had been passed , and the prosperous Portuguese trade with west Africa soon engaged twenty - five caravels every year . By 1457 Alvise da Cadamosto - a Venetian precursor of the Italian sea captains like Columbus , Vespucci , and ...
... coast had been passed , and the prosperous Portuguese trade with west Africa soon engaged twenty - five caravels every year . By 1457 Alvise da Cadamosto - a Venetian precursor of the Italian sea captains like Columbus , Vespucci , and ...
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... coast and then down southward across the equator . It had taken Prince Henry's sailors thirty years to cover a length of coast that Gomes , under his contract , covered in five . When Gomes ' contract expired , the King gave the trading ...
... coast and then down southward across the equator . It had taken Prince Henry's sailors thirty years to cover a length of coast that Gomes , under his contract , covered in five . When Gomes ' contract expired , the King gave the trading ...
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... coast to Mogadishu in Somaliland , to Malindi north of Mombasa , and to the Zanzibar coast . The adventuring sixth expe- dition ( 1421–22 ) , within only two years , visited thirty - six states stretching the full width of the Indian ...
... coast to Mogadishu in Somaliland , to Malindi north of Mombasa , and to the Zanzibar coast . The adventuring sixth expe- dition ( 1421–22 ) , within only two years , visited thirty - six states stretching the full width of 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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