Shores of Knowledge New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination

Name: Shores of Knowledge New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination
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ISBN: 9780393349795

ISBN-10: 0393349799

ISBN-13: 9780393349795

Edition: 2014

Authors: Joyce Appleby

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When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches, countless seafarers poured out of the Iberian Peninsula and wider Europe in search of spices, treasure, and land. Many returned with strange tales of the New World.Curiosity began to percolate through Europe as the New World's people, animals, and plants ruptured prior assumptions about the biblical description of creation. The Church, long fearful of challenges to its authority, could no longer suppress the mantra "Dare to know "Noblemen began collecting cabinets of curiosities; soon others went…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/13/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.20" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English