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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... produce clocks and watches in larger numbers for the commercial market . This fusee cutting machine still required ... produced the master screw required for his “ dividing engine , ” which made it possible to turn out countless other ...
... produce clocks and watches in larger numbers for the commercial market . This fusee cutting machine still required ... produced the master screw required for his “ dividing engine , ” which made it possible to turn out countless other ...
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... produced a year of 3654 days , which still proved to be some II minutes and 14 seconds longer than the actual solar cycle . Over the centuries , the ac- cumulation of this error , like that of a clock that runs too slow , had produced a ...
... produced a year of 3654 days , which still proved to be some II minutes and 14 seconds longer than the actual solar cycle . Over the centuries , the ac- cumulation of this error , like that of a clock that runs too slow , had produced a ...
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... produced larger animals . As animals migrated they adapted to their environments and so produced new varieties . Of the large animals , fewer varieties emerged because they reproduced slowly . But the prolific small mammals , such as ...
... produced larger animals . As animals migrated they adapted to their environments and so produced new varieties . Of the large animals , fewer varieties emerged because they reproduced slowly . But the prolific small mammals , such as ...
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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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