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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... seen object , the point of origin of the lines of vision . Plato and the Pythagoreans described the process of seeing as emanations from the eye which somehow encompassed the object seen . Ptolemy shared this approach . Democritus and ...
... seen object , the point of origin of the lines of vision . Plato and the Pythagoreans described the process of seeing as emanations from the eye which somehow encompassed the object seen . Ptolemy shared this approach . Democritus and ...
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... seen with their naked eyes . The eminent Aristotelian Cesare Cremonini refused to waste his time looking through Galileo's contraption just to see what " no one but Galileo has seen ... and besides , looking through those spectacles ...
... seen with their naked eyes . The eminent Aristotelian Cesare Cremonini refused to waste his time looking through Galileo's contraption just to see what " no one but Galileo has seen ... and besides , looking through those spectacles ...
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... seen fixed stars beyond his capacity to count them ( Was the Universe infinite ? ) . He had seen that the moon was no more perfect in shape than the earth itself ( Was there perhaps no difference , after all , between the substance of ...
... seen fixed stars beyond his capacity to count them ( Was the Universe infinite ? ) . He had seen that the moon was no more perfect in shape than the earth itself ( Was there perhaps no difference , after all , between the substance of ...
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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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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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