Author: Boorstin, Daniel Joseph
Title: The Discoverer: Two Volumes
Description: New York, H.N. Abrams, 1991. Hardcover. Two volumes in a colorfully illustrated slipcase; 1024 pp.; richly illustrated. Contains: "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." -- WorldCat. New, in shrinkwrap .

Keywords: History, Civilization, Science, Scientific Discoveries ; Scientific Discoveries ; ;


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