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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... mean hour and minute , the times of the setting and rising of the sun , conversion of mean time to sidereal time , the ... means to predict eclipses , indicated the mov- able feasts of the Church , and devised a perpetual calendar for ...
... mean hour and minute , the times of the setting and rising of the sun , conversion of mean time to sidereal time , the ... means to predict eclipses , indicated the mov- able feasts of the Church , and devised a perpetual calendar for ...
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... mean a pirate or raider . This word , in turn , is said to come from the Old Norse vík , which means a creek , inlet , or bay , where the marauding Vikings lurked . The word is also related to wīc or wīcing , the Old English word for ...
... mean a pirate or raider . This word , in turn , is said to come from the Old Norse vík , which means a creek , inlet , or bay , where the marauding Vikings lurked . The word is also related to wīc or wīcing , the Old English word for ...
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... means of a fragile device , had brought closer to our mortal eyes with such eagerness and impatience . " 42 New Worlds Within THE microscope was a product of the same age that made the telescope . But while Copernicus and Galileo have ...
... means of a fragile device , had brought closer to our mortal eyes with such eagerness and impatience . " 42 New Worlds Within THE microscope was a product of the same age that made the telescope . But while Copernicus and Galileo have ...
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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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