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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Appleby, Joyce Oldham.     Subjects     Discoveries in geography -- History.     Discoveries in science -- History.     Natural history -- America -- History.     America -- Discovery and exploration -- European.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Appleby, Joyce Oldham.       by title:      Shores of knowledge ...         MARC Display

Shores of knowledge : New World discoveries and the scientific imagination / Joyce Appleby. by Appleby, Joyce Oldham. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2013. Subjects Discoveries in geography -- History.   Discoveries in science -- History.   Natural history -- America -- History.   America -- Discovery and exploration -- European. ISBN:  9780393239515 (hbk.) 0393239519 (hbk.) Description:  308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  The New World finds its scribes -- Discovery of the other half of the globe -- Publishers spread the word of the New World -- Collectors, menageries, and naturalists -- Amateur naturalists yield to experts -- The true shape of the Earth -- Attention turns to the Pacific -- Humboldt and Darwin in the New World. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 970.01 Ap Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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