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description: While astronomers charted the heavens geographers and cartographers mapped the earth's exotic land and seas. Commerce and navigation exploded as mapmakers and bold explorers built on each other's achievements; in the process our very concept of the earth changed from a flat surface to a sphere.The Science and Discovery series recreates one of history's most successful journeys--four thousand years of scientific efforts to better understand and control the physical world. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom or accepted practices; this is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers experiments and theories change and progress. Aristotle Copernicus Kepler Galileo Newton Darwin Einstein and many others are featured.
language: English
title: Exploring and Mapmaking
publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks