Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the UnexpectedRandom House, 1994 - 210 psl. This provocative new collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize winner deals with the challenging themes of discovery and surprise in history. Cleopatra's Nose is not a miscellany but rather a selection of recent essays illustrating specific subjects that have preoccupied Boorstin for several decades. Tantalizing themes all: How sometimes discovery only increases our ignorance. What were the specific historical opportunities in the New World? How has the fourth kingdom - the kingdom of machines - contradicted Darwinian expectations, contributed to a confusion of statistics, created the need for the unnecessary, and highlighted the paradoxes of science and the politics of common sense? In a "personal postscript", Boorstin gives us a memorable and affectionate portrait of his father and optimistically celebrates the United States as the Land of the Unexpected. |
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... improved Har- rison and Kendall chronometers and was one of the first to prove the chronometer's utility as a navigational instrument . In- cidentally he was ready to learn new ways of dealing with the scurvy , the curse of long voyages ...
... improved Har- rison and Kendall chronometers and was one of the first to prove the chronometer's utility as a navigational instrument . In- cidentally he was ready to learn new ways of dealing with the scurvy , the curse of long voyages ...
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... improved telescopes by a factor of 10 and silicon " pixels " yielded digitally readable data with a dynamic range of 1 million compared with a range of some 10 to 100 in a photographic emulsion . By 1978 the Charge Coupled Device ( CCD ) ...
... improved telescopes by a factor of 10 and silicon " pixels " yielded digitally readable data with a dynamic range of 1 million compared with a range of some 10 to 100 in a photographic emulsion . By 1978 the Charge Coupled Device ( CCD ) ...
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... improved generator , an electric motor and electric locomotive , ore separators , a cement works , a kinetoscope and motion pictures , an alkaline storage battery , improvements in the typewriter , an autogiro , and countless other ...
... improved generator , an electric motor and electric locomotive , ore separators , a cement works , a kinetoscope and motion pictures , an alkaline storage battery , improvements in the typewriter , an autogiro , and countless other ...
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Foreword ix | 1 |
The Cultures of Pride and Awe | 18 |
Discoverers and Inventors | 31 |
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Nerodoma skirsnių: 15
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