Discoverers and Explorers - The Original Classic Edition. Shaw Edward

A truly wonderful book. One that should be used as a textbook in History in high school. Easily readable, it takes the reader on a voyage of far reaching proportions. <p> What is it that makes this book so pleasurable and instructive? A fresh approach to the evolution of knowledge and science as experienced historically by the pioneers. The exploration in retrospective of the discovery of the concept of time and the clock, the compass, the telescope, the microscope and the evolutionary description of the knowledge that mankind acquired through these instruments and the bold steps of the pioneers that wondered around the seas, the cosmos, the mind, etc.. <p> Why is it that modern culture, the different cultures and science are the way they are ? You will find a lot of answers about how this came to happen in this book. <p> Few indeed will be the readers who do not themselves become discoverers..... This book is one of the most outstanding discoveries that youll make in your quest for knowledge. You must not overlook it.