The Discoverers

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Currently Playing: The Discoverers Ch 54, PART 2, starting p. 424 after Pliny's paragraph

Ch 54, part 2 of the Discoverers by Boorstin. Hope you're following along bc ugh, so much Latin & even German words! It's a challenge. But Gesner is an AMAZINGLY gifted man - fun to read about him.

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The Discoverers Chapter 82: The Infinite and the Infinitesimal. CC Week 29/30. THE LAST CHAPTER.
The Discoverers Chapter 81: Learning from Numbers. CC Week 29/30
The Discoverers Ch 80: An Expanding Universe of Wealth - Week 29/30.
The Discoverers Chapter 79: A Science of Culture, week 29/30
The Discoverers Chapter 78: The Shock of the Primitive. CC Week 28.
The Discoverers Chapter 77 "All Mankind is One". PART FIFTEEN: Surveying the Present!! for Week 28.
The Discoverers, Chapter 76: Hidden Dimensions: History as Therapy
The Discoverers, Chapter 75: The Discovery of Prehistory
The Discoverers, Chapter 74: Latitudes of Time
The Discoverers Chapter 73 "To Wake the Dead"
The Discoverers, Chapter 72 "Explorers Among the Ruins"
The Discoverers Chapter 68 "Toward a World Literature", CC Wk 26
The Discoverers Chapter 71 "Revising the Record"; CC Wk 26
The Discoverers Chapter 70 "Christianity Gives Direction"; CC Wk 26
The Discoverers Chapter 69 "The Birth of History" - CC Wk 26 in Part 14: Opening the Past
The Discoverers Chapter 67 "The Island of Islam" CC Week 24
The Discoverers Chapter 66 "Books Go Public"; CC Week 24
The Discoverers Chapter 65 "Transforming the Book" CC Week 24
The Discoverers Ch 64 "Communities of the Vernacular" Week 24
The Discoverers, Ch 63 "The Art of Artificial Writing" CC Week 23
The Discoverers, Chapter 62: "The Duplicating Impulse", CC Week 23
The Discoverers, Chapter 61 "Empire of the Learned", CC Week 23
The Discoverers, Chapter 60 "The Lost Arts of Memory"
The Discoverers Chapter 58 "In Search of the Missing Link"; Week 22
The Discoverers, Chapter 57 PART 2. p.449 to the end of the chapter
The Discoverers, Chapter 57 PART 1. "Stretching the Past"
The Discoverers, Chapter 56 "Specimen Hunting"
The Discoverers Chapter 55 "The Invention of Species"
The Discoverers Ch 54, PART 2, starting p. 424 after Pliny's paragraph
The Discoverers, Part 12, Ch 54 PART 1 "Learning to Look", Week 19
The Discoverers, Ch. 53 "Priority Becomes the Prize", Week 19
The Discoverers Chapter 52 "God Said, Let Newton Be!" Week 19
The Discoverers Ch 51 "From Experience to Experiment" Week 19
The Discoverers, Chapter 50 "A Parliament of Scientists". PART 11: Science Goes Public. Week 18
The Discoverers, Chapter 49 "The Microscope of Nature" Week 18
The Discoverers Chapter 48 "From Qualities to Quantities" (Week 18)
The Discoverers Chapter 47 "Unseen Currents Within", Week 18
The Discoverers, Chapter 46 "From Animals to Man" Week 17
The Discoverers Chapter 42 "New Worlds Within"
The Discoverers Chapter 45 "The Tyranny of Galen" Week 17
The Discoverers Chapter 44 "A Mad Prophet Points the Way"
The Discoverers Chapter 43 "Galileo in China"
The Discoverers Chapter 41 "Caught in the Cross Fire"
The Discoverers Chapter 40 "A Vision Troubled and Surprised"
The Discoverers Chapter 39 "The Witness of the Naked Eye"
The Discoverers Chapter 38 "Into 'The Mists of Paradox'"
The Discoverers Chapter 37 "The Ardors of Negative Discovery"
The Discoverers Chapter 36 "Knowledge Becomes Merchandise"
The Discoverers Chapter 35 "The Reign of Secrecy"
The Discoverers Chapter 34 (most of it), part 1 "A World of Oceans"
The Discoverers Ch 34 part 2 "A World of Oceans", pages 2650266
The Discoverers Chapter 33, PART 1 of 2 "Naming the Unknown"
The Discoverers Ch 33 PART 2 of 2 "Naming the Unknown"
The Discoverers Chapter 32: "Paradise Found and Lost"
The Discoverers Chapter 31: "Fair Winds, Soft Words, and Luck"
The Discoverers Chapter 30: "The Enterprise of the Indies"
The Discoverers Chapter 29: The Power of the Winds
The Discoverers Chapter 28: Dead End in Vinland
The Discoverers Chapter 27: The Wandering Vikings
The Discoverers Chapter 26: An Empire Without Wants
The Discoverers Chapter 25: The Chinese Reach Out
The Discoverers Chapter 24: Why Not the Arabs?
The Discoverers Chapter 23: To India and Back
The Discoverers Ch 21, Part 1
The Discoverers Chapter 20: Ptolemy Revived and Revised
The Discoverers Chapter 19: The Land Curtain Comes Down
The Discoverers Chapter 18
The Discoverers Chapter 17: Missionary Diplomats
The Discoverers, Chapter 16: How the Mongols Opened the Way
The Discoverers, Chapter 15 Pilgrims and Crusaders
The Discoverers, Chapter 14
The Discoverers Chapter 13
The Discoverers Chapter 10: The Awe of Mountains
The Discoverers Chapter 9: Why it Happened in the West
The Discoverers, Chapter 8: Mother of Machines
The Discoverers Chapter 7
The Discoverers Chapter 6
The Discoverers, Chapter 5 Part 2
The Discoverers, Chapter 5 Part 1
The Discoverers Chapter 1 Part 1