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The Discoverers

2011-01-26 Science
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Release : 2011-01-26
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Book Synopsis The Discoverers by : Daniel J. Boorstin

Download or read book The Discoverers written by Daniel J. Boorstin. This book was released on 2011-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.

A Warsaw Diary

1985 Authors, Polish
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Release : 1985
Genre : Authors, Polish
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Book Synopsis A Warsaw Diary by : Kazimierz Brandys

Download or read book A Warsaw Diary written by Kazimierz Brandys. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Seekers

1999-10-26 History
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Release : 1999-10-26
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 752/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Seekers by : Daniel J. Boorstin

Download or read book The Seekers written by Daniel J. Boorstin. This book was released on 1999-10-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man's essential questions: "Who are we?" and "Why are we here?" Daniel J. Boorstin, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Americans, introduces us to some of the great pioneering seekers whose faith and thought have for centuries led man's search for meaning. Moses sought truth in God above while Sophocles looked to reason. Thomas More and Machiavelli pursued truth through social change. And in the modern age, Marx and Einstein found meaning in the sciences. In this epic intellectual adventure story, Boorstin follows the great seekers from the heroic age of prophets and philosophers to the present age of skepticism as they grapple with the great questions that have always challenged man.

The Creators

2012-04-11 History
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Release : 2012-04-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 210/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Creators by : Daniel J. Boorstin

Download or read book The Creators written by Daniel J. Boorstin. This book was released on 2012-04-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller. Even as he tells the stories of such individual creators as Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso, Handel, Wagner, and Virginia Woolf, Boorstin assembles them into a grand mosaic of aesthetic and intellectual invention. In the process he tells us not only how great art (and great architecture and philosophy) is created, but where it comes from and how it has shaped and mirrored societies from Vedic India to the twentieth-century United States.

Discoverers of the Universe

2011-01-10 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2011-01-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Discoverers of the Universe by : Michael Hoskin

Download or read book Discoverers of the Universe written by Michael Hoskin. This book was released on 2011-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the brother and sister who helped found modern astronomy Discoverers of the Universe tells the gripping story of William Herschel, the brilliant, fiercely ambitious, emotionally complex musician and composer who became court astronomer to Britain's King George III, and of William's sister, Caroline, who assisted him in his observations of the night sky and became an accomplished astronomer in her own right. Together, they transformed our view of the universe from the unchanging, mechanical creation of Newton's clockmaker god to the ever-evolving, incredibly dynamic cosmos that it truly is. William was in his forties when his amateur observations using a homemade telescope led to his discovery of Uranus, and an invitation to King George's court. He coined the term "asteroid," discovered infrared radiation, was the first to realize that our solar system is moving through space, discovered 2,500 nebulae that form the basis of the catalog astronomers use today, and was unrivalled as a telescope builder. Caroline shared William's passion for astronomy, recording his observations during night watches and organizing his papers for publication. She was the first salaried woman astronomer in history, a pioneer who herself discovered nine comets and became a role model for women in the sciences. Written by the world's premier expert on the Herschels, Discoverers of the Universe traces William and Caroline's many extraordinary contributions to astronomy, shedding new light on their productive but complicated relationship, and setting their scientific achievements in the context of their personal struggles, larger-than-life ambitions, bitter disappointments, and astonishing triumphs.

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