Boorstin Daniel: Otkrivači. Povijest čovjekove potrage za spoznajom svijeta i samoga sebe

Name: Otkrivači. Povijest čovjekove potrage za spoznajom svijeta i samoga sebe
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Author: Boorstin Daniel

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Author: Boorstin Daniel
Publisher: Tim press
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Otkrivači. Povijest čovjekove potrage za spoznajom svijeta i samoga sebe

Boorstin Daniel

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Daniel Boorstin: The Discoverers. The history of man's search for knowledge of the world and himself

My hero is the Man the Discoverer. The world as we now see it from the point of view of the pretentious West - visions of time, land and sea, heavenly bodies and our own bodies, plants and animals, history and human communities of the past and present - had to be revealed to us by countless Columbuses. In the deep abysses of the past they have no names, but the closer we are to the present, they emerge into the light of history as a gallery of characters, as diverse as human nature. Discoveries become highlights in the CV, as unpredictable as the new worlds that the discoverers have revealed to us.
Obstacles on the way to discovery, misconceptions, are also part of our story. Because we will be able to understand the boldness, audacity, and heroic and imaginative steps of the great discoverers only in the context of the common ways of thinking and myths of their time. They had to fight against accepted "facts" and learned dogmas. I tried to revive those ideas about the Earth, continents and seas before Columbus, Balboa, Magellan and Captain Cook, about the sky before Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler, about the human body before Paracelsus, Vesalius and Harvey, about plants and animals before Ray, Linnaeus, Darwin and Pasteur, about the past before Petrarch, Winckelmann, Thomsen and Schliemann, about wealth before Adam Smith and Kevnes, about the world of physics and atoms before Newton, Dalton, Faraday, Clerk Maxwell and Einstein.
I also asked some unusual questions. Why didn't the Chinese "discover" Europe or America? Why didn't the Arabs sail around Africa and the world? Why did it take so long for people to understand how the Earth revolves around the Sun? Why did people come to believe that there were "species" of plants and animals? Why were the facts about prehistory and the discovery of the progress of civilization accepted so slowly?

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