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Shores of knowledge : New World discoveries and the scientific imagination
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Title
Shores of knowledge : New World discoveries and the scientific imagination / Joyce Appleby.
ISBN
9780393239515 (hbk.)
0393239519 (hbk.)
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
Physical Description
308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary
Recounts the triumphs and mishaps of Columbus and other explorers, following the naturalists--both famous and obscure--whose investigations of the world's fauna and flora fueled the rise of science and technology that propelled Western Europe towards modernity.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 20, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-281) and index.
Contents
The New World finds its scribes
Discovery of the other half of the globe
Publishers spread the word of the New World
Collectors, menageries, and naturalists
Amateur naturalists yield to experts
The true shape of the Earth
Attention turns to the Pacific
Humboldt and Darwin in the New World.
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