The discoverers : a history of man's search to know his world and himself / Daniel J. Boorstin.
Publication details: New York : Random House, 1985,c1983Description: xvi, 745 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0394725251
- 9780394726250
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BSOP Library | David Weisberg Collection | CB69 B64 1985 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00061026 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [717]-718) and index.
Book one: Time -- The heavenly empire -- From sun time to clock time -- The missionary clock Book two: The earth and the seas -- The geography of the imagination -- Paths to the East -- Doubling the world -- The American surprise -- Sea paths to everywhere -- Book three: Nature -- Seeing the invisible -- Inside ourselves -- Science goes public -- Cataloguing the whole creation -- Book four: Society -- Widening the communities of knowledge -- Opening the past -- Surveying the present.
Tells the ongoing story of the progressive discovery by man of the nature of the observable world and universe.
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