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Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination
Shores of Knowledge New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination
Author: Joyce Appleby
?Uncommonly good . . . makes a compelling case that . . . intellectual curiosity not only changed Europe, but launched modernity.? ?Cleveland Plain Dealer 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 riche...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393349795
ISBN-10: 0393349799
Publication Date: 10/13/2014
Pages: 320
Edition: 1
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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