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Columnist David Murdock still has his family's prized 1965 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia, and recalls pleasant hours reading it.
In a letter of late 1497 or early 1498, the English merchant John Day wrote to Columbus about Cabot's discoveries, saying that land found by Cabot was "discovered in the past by the men from Bristol who found 'Brasil' as your lordship knows". [140] There may be records of expeditions from Bristol to find the "isle of Brazil" in 1480 and 1481. [141]
His book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, is a work of sheer fiction presented as revisionist history. Not a single document or artifact has been found to support his new claims on the supposed Ming naval expeditions beyond Africa...Menzies' numerous claims and the hundreds of pieces of "evidence" he has assembled have been thoroughly ...
The World, also called Treatise on the Light (French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy , from method, to metaphysics , to physics and biology .
Labatut presents the book's subjects in a less flattering light, subverting the status often given to scientists. [7] He allows scientists to glance at "truth" only after they have proven themselves worthy of their discovery through sacrifice, for example, Heisenberg scientifically concluded that he "seemed to have gouged out both his eyes in order to see further".
The book, subtitled A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, is a history of human discovery. Discovery in many forms is described: exploration, science, medicine, mathematics, and more-theoretical ones, such as time, evolution, plate tectonics, and relativity.
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