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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... known of these was his treatise on astronomy , the Almagest . His Geography , which aimed to map the whole known world , pioneered in listing places systematically by latitude and longitude . There , too , he offered his own improved ...
... known of these was his treatise on astronomy , the Almagest . His Geography , which aimed to map the whole known world , pioneered in listing places systematically by latitude and longitude . There , too , he offered his own improved ...
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... known world summed up the best thinking of his day . For his geography he drew on Eratosthenes and Hippar- chus . Ptolemy frequently acknowledged his debt to the prolific Strabo , the Greek historian - geographer who used tradition ...
... known world summed up the best thinking of his day . For his geography he drew on Eratosthenes and Hippar- chus . Ptolemy frequently acknowledged his debt to the prolific Strabo , the Greek historian - geographer who used tradition ...
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... known " lands in a known direction but without knowing precisely how long the passage might be . By contrast , the Portuguese voyages around Africa and , it was hoped , to India , were based on risky speculative notions , rumors , and ...
... known " lands in a known direction but without knowing precisely how long the passage might be . By contrast , the Portuguese voyages around Africa and , it was hoped , to India , were based on risky speculative notions , rumors , and ...
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FROM SUN TIME TO CLOCK TIME | 26 |
THE MISSIONARY CLOCK | 56 |
THE EARTH AND THE SEAS | 79 |
Urheberrecht | |
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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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