Voyaging in strange seas : the great revolution in science / David Knight.
In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed, Luther's Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the ancient Greeks and Romans. A new, empirical worldview...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2014]
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| Physical Description: | 329 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |