The DiscoverersKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011 M01 26 - 768 páginas An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos. |
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THE EARTH AND THE SEAS | 79 |
The Appeal of Symmetry | 92 |
The Prison of Christian Dogma | 100 |
A Flat Earth Returns | 107 |
PATHS TO THE EAST 15 Pilgrims and Crusaders | 116 |
How the Mongols Opened the Way | 124 |
SCIENCE GOES PUBLIC 50 A Parliament of Scientists | 386 |
From Experience to Experiment | 394 |
God Said Let Newton Be | 401 |
Priority Becomes the Prize | 408 |
CATALOGUING THE WHOLE CREATION | 419 |
Learning to Look | 420 |
The Invention of Species | 429 |
Specimen Hunting | 436 |
Missionary Diplomats | 128 |
The Discovery of Asia | 134 |
The Land Curtain Comes Down | 139 |
DOUBLING THE WORLD 20 Ptolemy Revived and Revised | 146 |
Portuguese Sea Pioneers | 156 |
Beyond the Threatening Cape | 165 |
To India and Back | 172 |
Why Not the Arabs? | 178 |
The Chinese Reach Out | 186 |
An Empire without Wants | 195 |
THE AMERICAN SURPRISE 27 The Wandering Vikings | 204 |
Dead End in Vinland | 209 |
The Power of the Winds | 217 |
The Enterprise of the Indies | 224 |
Fair Winds Soft Words and Luck | 231 |
Paradise Found and Lost | 235 |
Naming the Unknown | 244 |
SEA PATHS TO EVERYWHERE 34 A World of Oceans | 256 |
The Reign of Secrecy | 267 |
Knowledge Becomes Merchandise | 271 |
The Ardors of Negative Discovery | 278 |
NATURE | 291 |
SEEING THE INVISIBLE 38 Into the Mists of Paradox | 294 |
The Witness of the Naked Eye | 305 |
A Vision Troubled and Surprised | 312 |
Caught in the Cross Fire | 322 |
New Worlds Within | 327 |
Galileo in China | 332 |
INSIDE OURSELVES 44 A Mad Prophet Points the Way | 338 |
The Tyranny of Galen | 344 |
From Animals to Man | 351 |
Unseen Currents Within | 361 |
From Qualities to Quantities | 368 |
The Microscope of Nature | 376 |
Stretching the Past | 446 |
In Search of the Missing Link | 457 |
Paths to Evolution | 464 |
SOCIETY | 477 |
WIDENING THE COMMUNITIES OF KNOWLEDGE | 479 |
The Lost Arts of Memory | 480 |
Empire of the Learned | 489 |
The Duplicating Impulse | 498 |
The Art of Artificial Writing | 510 |
Communities of the Vernacular | 517 |
Transforming the Book | 524 |
Books Go Public | 533 |
The Island of Islam | 539 |
Toward a World Literature | 547 |
OPENING THE PAST 69 The Birth of History | 558 |
Christianity Gives Direction | 566 |
Revising the Record | 574 |
Explorers among the Ruins | 581 |
To Wake the Dead | 588 |
Latitudes of Time | 596 |
The Discovery of Prehistory | 603 |
History as Therapy | 613 |
PART | 625 |
All Mankind Is One | 626 |
The Shock of the Primitive | 636 |
A Science of Culture | 646 |
An Expanding Universe of Wealth | 652 |
Learning from Numbers | 667 |
The Infinite and the Infinitesimal | 675 |
Some Reference Notes | 685 |
Acknowledgments | 715 |
Index | 719 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself Daniel J. Boorstin Vista previa limitada - 1985 |
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