Discoveries that changed the world
By: by Rodney Castleden
Publisher: Futura
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780708804858
Subjects: World history; Discoveries in science; Discoveries in geography
Description: As it is impossible to rank them in order of importance, they are listed chronologically from as far back as 35,000 BC to the discovery of Oetzi, the Ice Man in 1991. Each article goes into detail about who the discoverers were, how the discoveries came about and their significance. For example, in 1543, while on his deathbead, Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus published his theory that the Sun is a motionless body at the centre of the solar system.
Table of contents: title: 1. Early discoveries; title: 2. The great age of discovery; title: 3. The age of Enlightenment; title: 4. The nineteenth-century world; title: 5. The modern world.