The Discoverers A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

, by BOORSTIN, DANIEL J.

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ISBN: 9780394726250 | 0394726251
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 2/12/1985

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An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him.

A Personal Note to the Reader	p. xv
Time
The Heavenly Empire
The Temptations of the Moon	p. 4
The Week: Gateway to Science	p. 12
God and the Astrologers	p. 19
From Sun Time to Clock Time
Measuring the Dark Hours	p. 26
The Rise of the Equal Hour	p. 36
Making Time Portable	p. 46
The Missionary Clock
Open Sesame to China	p. 56
Mother of Machines	p. 64
Why It Happened in the West	p. 72
The Earth and the Seas
The Geography of the Imagination
The Awe of Mountains	p. 82
Charting Heaven and Hell	p. 86
The Appeal of Symmetry	p. 92
The Prison of Christian Dogma	p. 100
A Flat Earth Returns	p. 107
Paths to the East
Pilgrims and Crusaders	p. 116
How the Mongols Opened the Way	p. 124
Missionary Diplomats	p. 128
The Discovery of Asia	p. 134
The Land Curtain Comes Down	p. 139
Doubling the World
Ptolemy Revived and Revised	p. 146
Portuguese Sea Pioneers	p. 156
Beyond the Threatening Cape	p. 165
To India and Back	p. 172
Why Not the Arabs?	p. 178
The Chinese Reach Out	p. 186
An Empire without Wants	p. 195
The American Surprise
The Wandering Vikings	p. 204
Dead End in Vinland	p. 209
The Power of the Winds	p. 217
"The Enterprise of the Indies"	p. 224
Fair Winds, Soft Words, and Luck	p. 231
Paradise Found and Lost	p. 235
Naming the Unknown	p. 244
Sea Paths to Everywhere
A World of Oceans	p. 256
The Reign of Secrecy	p. 267
Knowledge Becomes Merchandise	p. 271
The Ardors of Negative Discovery	p. 278
Nature
Seeing the Invisible
Into "the Mists of Paradox"	p. 294
The Witness of the Naked Eye	p. 305
A Vision Troubled and Surprised	p. 312
Caught in the Cross Fire	p. 322
New Worlds Within	p. 327
Galileo in China	p. 332
Inside Ourselves
A Mad Prophet Points the Way	p. 338
The Tyranny of Galen	p. 344
From Animals to Man	p. 351
Unseen Currents Within	p. 361
From Qualities to Quantities	p. 368
"The Microscope of Nature"	p. 376
Science Goes Public
A Parliament of Scientists	p. 386
From Experience to Experiment	p. 394
"God Said, Let Newton Be!"	p. 401
Priority Becomes the Prize	p. 408
Cataloguing the Whole Creation
Learning to Look	p. 420
The Invention of Species	p. 429
Specimen Hunting	p. 436
Stretching the Past	p. 446
In Search of the Missing Link	p. 457
Paths to Evolution	p. 464
Society
Widening the Communities of Knowledge
The Lost Arts of Memory	p. 480
Empire of the Learned	p. 489
The Duplicating Impulse	p. 498
"The Art of Artificial Writing"	p. 510
Communities of the Vernacular	p. 517
Transforming the Book	p. 524
Books Go Public	p. 533
The Island of Islam	p. 539
Toward a World Literature	p. 547
Opening the Past
The Birth of History	p. 558
Christianity Gives Direction	p. 566
Revising the Record	p. 574
Explorers among the Ruins	p. 581
"To Wake the Dead"	p. 588
Latitudes of Time	p. 596
The Discovery of Prehistory	p. 603
Hidden Dimensions: History as Therapy	p. 613
Surveying the Present
"All Mankind Is One"	p. 626
The Shock of the Primitive	p. 636
A Science of Culture	p. 646
An Expanding Universe of Wealth	p. 652
Learning from Numbers	p. 667
The Infinite and the Infinitesimal	p. 675
Some Reference Notes	p. 685
Acknowledgments	p. 715
Index	p. 719
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The Discoverers A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

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