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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... opened the Jesuits ' way to the imperial court . Yet it was not the calendar but the clock that opened a new commerce between West and East . In the West the clock soon became an everyday convenience , while in China it long remained a ...
... opened the Jesuits ' way to the imperial court . Yet it was not the calendar but the clock that opened a new commerce between West and East . In the West the clock soon became an everyday convenience , while in China it long remained a ...
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... Opened the Way THE land - faring pioneers of Europe's first Age of Discovery who went eastward in the mid - thirteenth century needed resources quite different from those of the later , the seafaring , age . Columbus would have to raise ...
... Opened the Way THE land - faring pioneers of Europe's first Age of Discovery who went eastward in the mid - thirteenth century needed resources quite different from those of the later , the seafaring , age . Columbus would have to raise ...
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... opened for the European traveler . The way of thinking of the Tartar Khans was most alien to the medieval Christian ... opened the pathway from the Christian West . The Tartar conquest of Persia brought the usual Mongol policy of low ...
... opened for the European traveler . The way of thinking of the Tartar Khans was most alien to the medieval Christian ... opened the pathway from the Christian West . The Tartar conquest of Persia brought the usual Mongol policy of low ...
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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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