| Edition |
1st Vintage book ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 745 pages ; 21 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 685-713) and index. |
| Summary |
In Boorstin's 1983 bestseller The Discoverers, the achievements of Galileo, Columbus, Darwin, Gutenberg and Freud emerged as upwellings of creativity and courage, ingenious acts of revolt against ingrained habit. This richly illustrated two-volume edition reveals the world as known to the discovers themselves. |
| Contents |
The heavenly empire -- From sun time to clock time -- The missionary clock -- The geography of the imagination -- Paths to the East -- Doubling the world -- The American surprise -- Sea paths to everywhere -- Seeing the invisible -- Inside ourselves -- Science goes public -- Cataloguing the whole creation -- Widening the communities of knowledge -- Opening the past -- Surveying the present. |
| Subject |
Civilization -- History.
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Discoveries in geography.
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Science -- History.
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Discoveries in geography. (OCoLC)fst00894950
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Science. (OCoLC)fst01108176
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0394726251 (pbk.) |
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9780394726250 (pbk.) |
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