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Author Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004.

Title The discoverers / Daniel J. Boorstin.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [1983]
©1983

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  909 B64    DUE 05-14-24
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Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 745 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [717]-718.
Note Includes index.
Contents 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.
Subject Civilization -- History.
Discoveries in geography.
Science -- History.
Added Author Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987, former owner.
Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
ISBN 0394402294: $25.00
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