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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9645583 Title: The discoverers Author: Daniel J Boorstin; Clare Boothe Luce; Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress) Publisher: New York : Random House, ©1983. ISBN/ISSN: 0394402294 9780394402291 OCLC:9645583

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The discoverers

Author:	Daniel J Boorstin; Clare Boothe Luce; Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher:	New York : Random House, ©1983.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	Tells the ongoing story of the progressive discovery by man of the nature of the observable world and universe.
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004. Discoverers. New York : Random House, c1983 (OCoLC)561569573
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Daniel J Boorstin; Clare Boothe Luce; Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress) Find more information about:
ISBN:	0394402294 9780394402291
OCLC Number:	9645583
Description:	xvi, 745 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	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.
Responsibility:	Daniel J. Boorstin.
More information:	Publisher description Inhaltsverzeichnis

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