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Le grand atlas des explorations.
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ISBN: 2852299402 9782852299405 Year: 1991 Publisher: Paris : Encyclopaedia Universalis,


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De grote ontdekkingsreizigers.
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ISBN: 9789086794072 9789059564015 Year: 2011 Publisher: Hilversum Fontaine

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In alle tijden zijn er wel mensen geweest die zich genoodzaakt voelden de grenzen van de toenmaals bekende wereld te verkennen - en deze te overschrijden. Dat zijn de mannen en vrouwen die onze kijk op onze omgeving hebben veranderd door hun dappere, risicovolle ondernemingen, en die de wereld aan ons hebben geopenbaard. Maar wat zette hen ertoe aan om zich in onbekende en onbarmhartige landen te wagen, bijna onvoorstelbare uitdagingen te trotseren en de dood te riskeren? In een reeks indringende biografieën worden in dit boek veertig van de grootste ontdekkingsreizigers beschreven. Hun leven wordt belicht en hun motieven en hartstochten worden geanalyseerd, zodat hun grote wapenfeiten in hun context komen te staan. Marianne North begon pas aan haar reis toen ze al veertig was. Francis Garnier ging tot het uiterste, tot aan de rand van de waanzin, om de loop van de Mekong te volgen. En Edward Wilson reisde tweemaal samen met Scott om de zuidpool te bereiken, en stierf samen met hem nadat Amundsen hun de loef had afgestoken. De grote ontdekkinsreizigers is geschreven door een internationaal team van gezaghebbende reisauteurs, presentatoren en historici. Het is thematisch ingedeeld - beginnend met de oceaanreizen van vijfhonderd jaar geleden, toen het grote tijdperk van opgetekende ontdekkingstochten begon, tot de hoofdstukken over land, rivieren, poolijs, woestijnen, het leven op aarde en nieuwe grensgebieden. Velen van deze ontdekkingsreizigers hebben hun reizen in levendige authentieke verslagen weergegeven; anderen waren grootse artiesten en fotografen. Het boek is geïllustreerd met fraaie kunstwerken, foto's, gravures, kaarten en citaten, zodat wij hun avonturen ook kunnen meebeleven door hun eigen ogen en met hun eigen woorden. Met 204 illustraties.

The age of discovery, 1400-1600
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ISBN: 0415279968 041527995X 1299950612 1315015471 1136479686 9781136479687 9781299950610 9781315015477 9780415279956 9780415279963 9781136479755 9781136479823 1136479759 Year: 2012 Volume: *25,*27 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge,

España y América en una perspectiva humanista : Homenaje a Marcel Bataillon.
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ISBN: 8486839807 8490961042 Year: 1998 Publisher: Madrid : Casa de Velázquez,

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El prestigio de Marcel Bataillon no proviene únicamente de los trabajos publicados por él mismo, sino también de las investigaciones que dirigió o inspiró. Una primera estancia en la Escuela de Altos Estudios Hispánicos, en 1916, le permite vislumbrar y esbozar lo que con el tiempo se convertiría en su vocación científica: el humanismo, enfocado primero como una investigación sobre el helenismo en España, tema que posteriormente amplió al conjunto de movimientos intelectuales, culturales y espirituales del siglo XVI. Marcel Bataillon no se dejó encerrar en una limitada especialización. Su curiosidad intelectual llegó a abarcar casi todos los sectores del hispanismo. Destacan en su obra tres orientaciones privilegiadas: la literatura española del siglo XVI, la historia espiritual de España y los debates suscitados por la conquista y colonización del Nuevo Mundo. Las contribuciones al homenaje que la Casa de Velázques le rindió con motivo del centenario de su nacimiento se organizan alrededor de estas tres direcciones. Los autores -todos ellos discípulos de Marcel Bataillon- dan testimonio, a través de los estudios publicados en esta obra, de la fecundidad de las pistas abiertas por el maestro.


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Le Portugal à la rencontre de "Trois mondes" : (Afrique, Asie, Amérique) aux XV-XVIe siècles
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ISBN: 290716337X 2371540072 Year: 1994 Volume: 59 15 Publisher: Éditions de l’IHEAL

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Autant, si ce n'est plus que pour l'Espagne, les Grandes découvertes ont été, pour le Portugal, un véritable mythe fondateur. En un siècle et demi, de 1415 aux années 1550 , un pays de dimension modeste (90000 km2) , situé au sud d'une Europe médiévale confrontée en Méditérranée à l'Islam, peuplé d'un peu plus d'un million d'habitants, a mis en relation, de façon directe, grâce à sa maîtrise des routes de la mer océane, cet extrême Occident de l'Ancien Monde avec les "Trois Mondes" d'Afrique, d'Asie et d'Amérique. Le Portugal donnait ainsi au Monde sa dimension planétaire et l'Europe, grãce au Portugal, affirmait outre-mer sa "Renaissance". Cet ouvrage, qui est un manuel de synthèse, décrit les principaux évènements de cette vaste fresque maritime, chantée dès 1572 par Luis de Camões dans son poème épique des Lusiades. De l'Afrique aux Indes d'Asie, du Brésil ou du Labrador à la Chine ou au Japon, cette histoire des découvertes portugaises évoque les rencontres multiples où le destin de l'Europe s'est trouvé confronté à tant d'autres destins ...


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Exploring and mapping Alaska : the Russian America era, 1741 - 1867
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ISBN: 1602232520 9781602232525 9781602232518 1602232512 Year: 2015 Publisher: Fairbanks University of Alaska Press

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Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire eighteenth century. For centuries since, cartographers have struggled to define and develop the enormous region comprising northeastern Asia, the North Pacific, and Alaska. The forces of nature and the follies of human error conspired to make the area incredibly difficult to map. Exploring and Mapping Alaska focuses on this foundational period in Arctic cartography. Russia spurred a golden era of cartographic exploration, while shrouding their efforts in a veil of secrecy. They drew both on old systems developed by early fur traders and new methodologies created in Europe. With Great Britain, France, and Spain following close behind, their expeditions led to an astounding increase in the world's knowledge of North America. Through engrossing descriptions of the explorations and expert navigators, aided by informative illustrations, readers can clearly trace the evolution of the maps of the era, watching as a once-mysterious region came into sharper focus. The result of years of cross-continental research, Exploring and Mapping Alaska is a fascinating study of the trials and triumphs of one of the last great eras of historic mapmaking.

The travels and adventures of serendipity : a study in sociological semantics and the sociology of science
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ISBN: 0691126305 0691117543 9786613339911 1400841526 1283339919 9781400841523 9780691126302 9780691117546 9781283339919 6613339911 Year: 2004 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its 1754 coinage into the twentieth century--chronicling along the way much of what we now call the natural and social sciences. The book charts where the term went, with whom it resided, and how it fared. We cross oceans and academic specialties and meet those people, both famous and now obscure, who have used and abused serendipity. We encounter a linguistic sage, walk down the illustrious halls of the Harvard Medical School, attend the (serendipitous) birth of penicillin, and meet someone who "manages serendipity" for the U.S. Navy. The story of serendipity is fascinating; that of The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity, equally so. Written in the 1950's by already-eminent sociologist Robert Merton and Elinor Barber, the book--though occasionally and most tantalizingly cited--was intentionally never published. This is all the more curious because it so remarkably anticipated subsequent battles over research and funding--many of which centered on the role of serendipity in science. Finally, shortly after his ninety-first birthday, following Barber's death and preceding his own by but a little, Merton agreed to expand and publish this major work. Beautifully written, the book is permeated by the prodigious intellectual curiosity and generosity that characterized Merton's influential On the Shoulders of Giants. Absolutely entertaining as the history of a word, the book is also tremendously important to all who value the miracle of intellectual discovery. It represents Merton's lifelong protest against that rhetoric of science that defines discovery as anything other than a messy blend of inspiration, perspiration, error, and happy chance--anything other than serendipity.


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Imagination and Science in Romanticism
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ISBN: 9781421425788 9781421425795 1421425793 1421425793 1421425785 1421439832 1421441241 Year: 2018 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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"In Imagination and Science in Romanticism, Richard Sha challenges the idea that the imagination could only be applied to the literary and that its primary role was to transcend scientific concerns. Sha shows how the imagination functioned within physics and chemistry in Prometheus Unbound, neurology in Blake's Four Zoas, physiology in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, and obstetrics and embryology in Frankenstein. Sha also shows how the imagination was used in the scientific community, highlighting as primary examples the work of Davy, Faraday, Priestley, Kant, Mary Somerville, Oersted, Marcet, Swedenborg, Blumenbach, Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, and Von Baer, among others. Both fields profited from thinking about how the imagination could cooperate with reason and how hypotheses that had the possibility of actuality could benefit their work" --


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Denken en weten over de wereld
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ISBN: 9789058676474 Year: 2008 Volume: 14 Publisher: Leuven Universitaire Pers Leuven

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Civilisation --- anno 2000-2099 --- Activités de recherche --- Discoveries [Scientific ] --- Discoveries in science --- Découvertes scientifiques --- Onderzoek --- Ontdekkingen [Wetenschappelijke ] --- Programmes de recherche --- Projets de recherche --- Recherche --- Recherche fondamentale --- Recherche pure --- Recherche scientifique --- Recherche--Programmes --- Recherche--Projets --- Research --- Science [Découvertes en ] --- Science research --- Science--Research --- Sciences--Recherche --- Scientific discoveries --- Scientific research --- Wetenschappelijk onderzoek --- Wetenschappelijke ontdekkingen --- 001 --- Academic collection --- #GGSB: Filosofie --- 041 Essays met verspreide inhoud --- 061 Ethische problemen --- euthanasie --- 500 Milieu --- 540 Luchtverontreiniging --- 653 Statistiek --- 671 Gezondheidszorg. Preventie --- 720 Onderwijs --- 001 wetenschap --- 551.58 klimaat --- 551.583 klimaatverandering --- 2 geloof --- 63 landbouw --- 641.1/.3 voeding --- -053.2 kinderen --- 316.47 sociale relaties --- 371 onderwijs --- 504 milieu --- 8 taal --- 633.4 bieren --- 311 statistiek --- 170 ethiek --- 179.73 euthanasie --- (7-17) Verenigde Staten --- Cultuurtheorie: algemeen (cultuurfilosofie, intellectuelen) --- Dementie (Alzheimer, demente bejaarden, jong-dementerenden) --- Erfelijkheid (genetica) --- Euthanasie --- Filosofie: algemeen --- Gehechtheid(stheorie) (attachment, Bowlby, hechtingstheorie, moeder-kind relatie) --- Humor --- Milieubeleid/milieuproblematiek (ecologie, leefmilieu) --- Onderwijs en sociaal milieu --- USA (Amerika, Verenigde Staten van Amerika) --- Voedingsbeleid --- Wereldeconomie --- S20080638.JPG --- Wetenschapsfilosofie --- meningsvorming --- Wetenschap en kennis--(algemeen) --- 1 --- 301.17 --- 001 Wetenschap en kennis--(algemeen) --- 364.2 --- 378.4 <493 KUL> --- 378.4 <493 KUL> Universiteiten: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven--KUL --- Universiteiten: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven--KUL --- Bijzondere maatschappelijke probleme --- #gsdbF --- Filosofie

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