Main entry:

Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004, author.

Title & Author:

The discoverers / Daniel J. Boorstin.

Edition:

1st Vintage book ed.

Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1985.
©1983

Description:

xvi, 745 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 685-713) and index.
The heavenly empire. -- From sun time to clock time. -- The missionary clock. -- The geography of the imagination. -- Paths to the East. -- Doubling the world. -- The American surprise. -- Sea paths to everywhere. -- Seeing the invisible. -- Inside ourselves. -- Science goes public. -- Cataloguing the whole creation. -- Widening the communities of knowledge. -- Opening the past. -- Surveying the present.
Library copy: presentation copy to Phyllis Lambert from Peter, Susan, Jean, October 88.

Summary:

In Boorstin's 1983 bestseller The Discoverers, the achievements of Galileo, Columbus, Darwin, Gutenberg and Freud emerged as upwellings of creativity and courage, ingenious acts of revolt against ingrained habit. This richly illustrated two-volume edition reveals the world as known to the discovers themselves.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0394726251 (pbk.)
9780394726250 (pbk.)

Subject:

Civilization History.
Discoveries in geography.
Science History.
animal welfare.
Civilisation Histoire.
Découvertes géographiques.
Sciences Histoire.
HISTORY General.
Civilization
Science
Entdeckung
Geschichte
Naturwissenschaften
Cultuur.
Ontdekkingen.
Wetenschap.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)
Provenance. Lambert, Phyllis. Inscription.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225903
Call No.: CB69 .B66 1985
Status: Available