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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... Experience The Americans : The National Experience The Americans : The Democratic Experience The Mysterious Science of the Law The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson The Genius of American Politics America and the Image of Europe The Image ...
... Experience The Americans : The National Experience The Americans : The Democratic Experience The Mysterious Science of the Law The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson The Genius of American Politics America and the Image of Europe The Image ...
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... experience . No amount of theology would persuade a mariner that the rocks his ship foundered on were not real . The outlines of the seacoast , marked off by hard experience , could not be modified or ignored by what was written in ...
... experience . No amount of theology would persuade a mariner that the rocks his ship foundered on were not real . The outlines of the seacoast , marked off by hard experience , could not be modified or ignored by what was written in ...
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... Experience and Experiment . Experience was al- ways personal , and never precisely repeatable . The travels of Marco Polo , the voyages of Columbus and Magellan , were experiences to be recounted , and enjoyed in the reading and hearing ...
... Experience and Experiment . Experience was al- ways personal , and never precisely repeatable . The travels of Marco Polo , the voyages of Columbus and Magellan , were experiences to be recounted , and enjoyed in the reading and hearing ...
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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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Adam Smith Africa Age of Discovery anatomy ancient animals Arabic Asia astrology astronomical became body Buffon calendar called century China Chinese Christian Church classical clock clockmakers coast Columbus continent Copernicus culture Darwin discovered discovery earth East Emperor empire English Europe European experience exploring father French Galen Galileo geography Greek heavens Henry historian human hundred ideas Indian Indies invented Islam islands John Khan King Koran Kublai Khan land language Latin latitude learned Leibniz Linnaeus longitude manuscript maps Marco Marco Polo mathematics medieval Mediterranean Memory modern moon movable type Muslim nature never Newton observed Ocean Paracelsus physician pioneer plants Pope Portugal Portuguese Prester John Prince printed book Ptolemy Ptolemy's reached Roman Rome sailing Saint scholars scientific seafaring ships species telescope theory tion translation University Venice Vesalius Vespucci Viking voyage water clock West Western whole word writing
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