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The discoverers
Boorstin, Daniel J. 1914-2004.
Adult Nonfiction CB69.B66 1983
Boorstin, Daniel J. 1914-2004.
Adult Nonfiction CB69.B66 1983
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| Contents | Page |
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| A Personal Note to the Reader | p. xv |
| Book 1 - Time | |
| Part I - The Heavenly Empire | |
| 1. - The Temptations of the Moon | p. 4 |
| 2. - The Week: Gateway to Science | p. 12 |
| 3. - God and the Astrologers | p. 19 |
| Part II - From Sun Time to Clock Time | |
| 4. - Measuring the Dark Hours | p. 26 |
| 5. - The Rise of the Equal Hour | p. 36 |
| 6. - Making Time Portable | p. 46 |
| Part III - The Missionary Clock | |
| 7. - Open Sesame to China | p. 56 |
| 8. - Mother of Machines | p. 64 |
| 9. - Why It Happened in the West | p. 72 |
| Book 2 - The Earth and the Seas | |
| Part IV - The Geography of the Imagination | |
| 10. - The Awe of Mountains | p. 82 |
| 11. - Charting Heaven and Hell | p. 86 |
| 12. - The Appeal of Symmetry | p. 92 |
| 13. - The Prison of Christian Dogma | p. 100 |
| 14. - A Flat Earth Returns | p. 107 |
| Part V - Paths to the East | |
| 15. - Pilgrims and Crusaders | p. 116 |
| 16. - How the Mongols Opened the Way | p. 124 |
| 17. - Missionary Diplomats | p. 128 |
| 18. - The Discovery of Asia | p. 134 |
| 19. - The Land Curtain Comes Down | p. 139 |
| Part VI - Doubling the World | |
| 20. - Ptolemy Revived and Revised | p. 146 |
| 21. - Portuguese Sea Pioneers | p. 156 |
| 22. - Beyond the Threatening Cape | p. 165 |
| 23. - To India and Back | p. 172 |
| 24. - Why Not the Arabs? | p. 178 |
| 25. - The Chinese Reach Out | p. 186 |
| 26. - An Empire without Wants | p. 195 |
| Part VII - The American Surprise | |
| 27. - The Wandering Vikings | p. 204 |
| 28. - Dead End in Vinland | p. 209 |
| 29. - The Power of the Winds | p. 217 |
| 30. - "The Enterprise of the Indies" | p. 224 |
| 31. - Fair Winds, Soft Words, and Luck | p. 231 |
| 32. - Paradise Found and Lost | p. 235 |
| 33. - Naming the Unknown | p. 244 |
| Part VIII - Sea Paths to Everywhere | |
| 34. - A World of Oceans | p. 256 |
| 35. - The Reign of Secrecy | p. 267 |
| 36. - Knowledge Becomes Merchandise | p. 271 |
| 37. - The Ardors of Negative Discovery | p. 278 |
| Book 3 - Nature | |
| Part IX - Seeing the Invisible | |
| 38. - Into "the Mists of Paradox" | p. 294 |
| 39. - The Witness of the Naked Eye | p. 305 |
| 40. - A Vision Troubled and Surprised | p. 312 |
| 41. - Caught in the Cross Fire | p. 322 |
| 42. - New Worlds Within | p. 327 |
| 43. - Galileo in China | p. 332 |
| Part X - Inside Ourselves | |
| 44. - A Mad Prophet Points the Way | p. 338 |
| 45. - The Tyranny of Galen | p. 344 |
| 46. - From Animals to Man | p. 351 |
| 47. - Unseen Currents Within | p. 361 |
| 48. - From Qualities to Quantities | p. 368 |
| 49. - "The Microscope of Nature" | p. 376 |
| Part XI - Science Goes Public | |
| 50. - A Parliament of Scientists | p. 386 |
| 51. - From Experience to Experiment | p. 394 |
| 52. - "God Said, Let Newton Be!" | p. 401 |
| 53. - Priority Becomes the Prize | p. 408 |
| Part XII - Cataloguing the Whole Creation | |
| 54. - Learning to Look | p. 420 |
| 55. - The Invention of Species | p. 429 |
| 56. - Specimen Hunting | p. 436 |
| 57. - Stretching the Past | p. 446 |
| 58. - In Search of the Missing Link | p. 457 |
| 59. - Paths to Evolution | p. 464 |
| Book 4 - Society | |
| Part XIII - Widening the Communities of Knowledge | |
| 60. - The Lost Arts of Memory | p. 480 |
| 61. - Empire of the Learned | p. 489 |
| 62. - The Duplicating Impulse | p. 498 |
| 63. - "The Art of Artificial Writing" | p. 510 |
| 64. - Communities of the Vernacular | p. 517 |
| 65. - Transforming the Book | p. 524 |
| 66. - Books Go Public | p. 533 |
| 67. - The Island of Islam | p. 539 |
| 68. - Toward a World Literature | p. 547 |
| Part XIV - Opening the Past | |
| 69. - The Birth of History | p. 558 |
| 70. - Christianity Gives Direction | p. 566 |
| 71. - Revising the Record | p. 574 |
| 72. - Explorers among the Ruins | p. 581 |
| 73. - "To Wake the Dead" | p. 588 |
| 74. - Latitudes of Time | p. 596 |
| 75. - The Discovery of Prehistory | p. 603 |
| 76. - Hidden Dimensions: History as Therapy | p. 613 |
| Part XV - Surveying the Present | |
| 77. - "All Mankind Is One" | p. 626 |
| 78. - The Shock of the Primitive | p. 636 |
| 79. - A Science of Culture | p. 646 |
| 80. - An Expanding Universe of Wealth | p. 652 |
| 81. - Learning from Numbers | p. 667 |
| 82. - The Infinite and the Infinitesimal | p. 675 |
| Some Reference Notes | p. 685 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 715 |
| Index | p. 719 |
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