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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... species was fixed and did not vary throughout the generations . " Forms which are different in species . always retain their specific natures , and one species does not grow from the seed of another species . " As time passed and he ...
... species was fixed and did not vary throughout the generations . " Forms which are different in species . always retain their specific natures , and one species does not grow from the seed of another species . " As time passed and he ...
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... species as Convolvulus folio Altheae . In 1623 the Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin ( 1560- 1624 ) called this same species Convolvulus argenteus Altheae folio , which in 1738 Linnaeus amplified to Convolvulus foliis ovatis divisis basi ...
... species as Convolvulus folio Altheae . In 1623 the Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin ( 1560- 1624 ) called this same species Convolvulus argenteus Altheae folio , which in 1738 Linnaeus amplified to Convolvulus foliis ovatis divisis basi ...
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... species . For him a species was only a name for one set of generations while the animal was adapting to its environment . And if every species was infinitely plastic , then no species would ever have to become extinct . While Lyell had kept ...
... species . For him a species was only a name for one set of generations while the animal was adapting to its environment . And if every species was infinitely plastic , then no species would ever have to become extinct . While Lyell had kept ...
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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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