While astronomers charted the heavens, geographers and cartographers mapped the earth's exotic land and seas. Commerce and navigation exploded as mapmakers and bold explorers built on each other's achievements; in the process, our very concept of the earth changed from a flat surface to a sphere.
The Science and Discovery series recreates one of history's most successful journeysfour thousand years of scientific efforts to better understand and control the physical world. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom or accepted practices; this is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress. Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, and many others are featured.
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My Dinner of HerbsEfrem Zimbalist, Jr.Narrated By : Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc5 hours 30 minutesCategories : BiographyDownload Price : $39.95 $14.95
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.’s memoir covers his family, student days, travels abroad, and careers in movies, television, and theater, including his share in a Pulitzer Prize. Included is music by his violin virtuoso father and opera diva mother. View...
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By Myself and Then SomeLauren BacallNarrated By : Lauren BacallPublished By : Harper Collins US7 hoursCategories : Autobiography
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Last Voyage Of Columbus, TheMartin DugardNarrated By : Simon JonesPublished By : Hachette Audio6 hoursCategories : Adventurers & Explorers
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Opposite of Fate, TheAmy TanNarrated By : Amy TanPublished By : Brilliance Audio Inc8 hours 39 minutesCategories : Autobiography
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Isaac NewtonJames GleickNarrated By : Allan CordunerPublished By : Harper Collins US5 hours 30 minutesCategories : Historical
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