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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... living creatures , seen all alive in a little drop of water , moving among one another , each several creature ... living creatures in a quantity of water as big as a millet - seed , and consequently 2730000 living creatures in one drop ...
... living creatures , seen all alive in a little drop of water , moving among one another , each several creature ... living creatures in a quantity of water as big as a millet - seed , and consequently 2730000 living creatures in one drop ...
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... living processes . For Aristotle , too , saw life as the single process of the whole living organism - not as something that occurred when " spirits , " or pneuma , were added to bodily organs . Aristotle's view of the unity of the life ...
... living processes . For Aristotle , too , saw life as the single process of the whole living organism - not as something that occurred when " spirits , " or pneuma , were added to bodily organs . Aristotle's view of the unity of the life ...
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... living as a doctor and also to pursue his botanical ambitions . Within the next three years , even before he was thirty , Linnaeus sketched his grand scheme . His succinct Systema Naturae ( Leyden , 1735 ) of only seven folio pages ...
... living as a doctor and also to pursue his botanical ambitions . Within the next three years , even before he was thirty , Linnaeus sketched his grand scheme . His succinct Systema Naturae ( Leyden , 1735 ) of only seven folio pages ...
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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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