Shores of knowledge : New World discoveries and the scientific imagination / Joyce Appleby.
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.
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2013]
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t The New World finds its scribes -- |t Discovery of the other half of the globe -- |t Publishers spread the word of the New World -- |t Collectors, menageries, and naturalists -- |t Amateur naturalists yield to experts -- |t The true shape of the Earth -- |t Attention turns to the Pacific -- |t Humboldt and Darwin in the New World. |
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