![]() In a feast for the mind and eye, itself a delightful adventure in discovery, Boorstin, librarian of Congress emeritus, profiles-and places in context-scores of innovators who broke with dogma and tradition. A photograph of 15th-century cast bronze type from Korea underscores an Eastern invention that could have changed the course of printing, perhaps of science and culture. We see the tools of discovery-Egyptian obelisks, early clocks, Leeuwenhoek's microscope, Mercator's maps, botanical drawings from James Cook's voyages-and glimpse the social, cultural and political background, made concrete in 550 pictures including paintings, sculpture, engravings and architecture. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces mans insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. ![]() This richly illustrated two-volume edition reveals the world as known to the discovers themselves. Boorstin Book 2 - Knowledge Series Synopsis An original history of mans greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. ![]() In Boorstin's 1983 bestseller The Discoverers, the achievements of Galileo, Columbus, Darwin, Gutenberg and Freud emerged as upwellings of creativity and courage, ingenious acts of revolt against ingrained habit. ![]()
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