Includes bibliographical references (pages 717-718) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Tells the ongoing story of the progressive discovery by man of the nature of the observable world and universe.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Discoverers.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Civilization.
Discoveries in geography.
Science-- History.
Civilization-- History.
Civilization-- history.
Science-- history.
Civilisation-- Histoire.
Découvertes géographiques.
Sciences-- Histoire.
Civilisation-- Histoire.
Civilization-- History.
Civilization-- History.
Civilization.
Découvertes géographiques.
Découvertes scientifiques.
Discoveries (in geography)
Discoveries in geography.
Discoveries in geography.
Entdeckung
Entdeckung.
Exploration.
Geestesgeschiedenis.
Geschichte
Geschichte.
Naturwissenschaften
Naturwissenschaften.
Ontdekkingen.
Ontdekkingsreizen.
Science-- History.
Science-- History.
Science.
Sciences-- Histoire.
Wetenschap.
Civilization-- History.
Science-- History.
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
909
Edition
19
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
CB69
Book number
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B66
1983
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
02
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01
Class number
15
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10
Class number
NN
1698
Class number
NU
1500
Class number
RB
10026
Class number
CB
69
Book Number
B66
1983
System Code
bcl
System Code
bcl
System Code
rvk
System Code
rvk
System Code
rvk
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Boorstin, Daniel J., (Daniel Joseph),1914-2004.
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Luce, Clare Boothe,1903-1987
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)