Shores Of Knowledge New World Discoveries And The Scientific Imagination
Publisher: WW Norton & Co; W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780393239515
Description: 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.