Shores of knowledge : new world discoveries and the scientific imagination / Joyce Appleby.

  • Appleby, Joyce, 1929-2016
Date:
[2013]
  • Books

About this work

Description

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.

Publication/Creation

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2013]

Physical description

308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    ABH.5
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780393239515
  • 0393239519