Tells the ongoing story of the progressive discovery by man of the nature of the observable world and universe.
... Heimskringla: Sagas of the Norse Kings (Samuel Lang trans., 1961), and in Gudbrund Vigfusson and F. York Powell, ... C. Lane's invaluable “The Economic Meaning of the Invention of the Compass,” in American Historical Review, Vol.
An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him.
The Discoverers
More than two hundred articles written by experts in the field and illustrated with scores of maps and photographs present accurate information on the multiple aspects of exploration, reviewing important...
With more than 700,000 copies in print, this highly praisedtext has reached m ore readers than any other serious work of world history. This deluxe two-volume set gives readers an...
The obstacles to discovery - the illusions of knowledge - are also part of the story. In this work, Boorstin captures the illusions about the past - the earth before...