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Author : Mark Thurner
Release : 2021
Genre : America
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Book Rating : 835/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis New World Objects of Knowledge by : Mark Thurner
Download or read book New World Objects of Knowledge written by Mark Thurner. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Thurner
Release : 2021-02-22
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Book Synopsis New World Objects of Knowledge by : Mark Thurner
Download or read book New World Objects of Knowledge written by Mark Thurner. This book was released on 2021-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joyce Appleby
Release : 2013-10-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 519/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination by : Joyce Appleby
Download or read book Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination written by Joyce Appleby. This book was released on 2013-10-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Lewis Dartnell
Release : 2015-03-10
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 047/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Knowledge by : Lewis Dartnell
Download or read book The Knowledge written by Lewis Dartnell. This book was released on 2015-03-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch? If our technological society collapsed tomorrow what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What crucial knowledge would they need to survive in the immediate aftermath and to rebuild civilization as quickly as possible? Human knowledge is collective, distributed across the population. It has built on itself for centuries, becoming vast and increasingly specialized. Most of us are ignorant about the fundamental principles of the civilization that supports us, happily utilizing the latest—or even the most basic—technology without having the slightest idea of why it works or how it came to be. If you had to go back to absolute basics, like some sort of postcataclysmic Robinson Crusoe, would you know how to re-create an internal combustion engine, put together a microscope, get metals out of rock, or even how to produce food for yourself? Lewis Dartnell proposes that the key to preserving civilization in an apocalyptic scenario is to provide a quickstart guide, adapted to cataclysmic circumstances. The Knowledge describes many of the modern technologies we employ, but first it explains the fundamentals upon which they are built. Every piece of technology rests on an enormous support network of other technologies, all interlinked and mutually dependent. You can’t hope to build a radio, for example, without understanding how to acquire the raw materials it requires, as well as generate the electricity needed to run it. But Dartnell doesn’t just provide specific information for starting over; he also reveals the greatest invention of them all—the phenomenal knowledge-generating machine that is the scientific method itself. The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world.
Author : Neil Safier
Release : 2008-11-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 564/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Measuring the New World by : Neil Safier
Download or read book Measuring the New World written by Neil Safier. This book was released on 2008-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission’s participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a “sacred fire” passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America.By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, Measuring the New World examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Neil Safier uses the notebooks of traveling philosophers, as well as specimens from the expedition, to place this particular scientific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author.
