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Terra Incognita

- A History of Ignorance in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Af: Alain Corbin Engelsk Hardback

Terra Incognita

- A History of Ignorance in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Af: Alain Corbin Engelsk Hardback
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Identifying gaps in knowledge is the first duty of any historian who sets out to understand the past. It is impossible fully to understand our forebears without some idea of what they did not know: the history of ignorance is an indispensable part of history itself. Here Alain Corbin focuses on our planet, exploring its mysteries past and present, and the intensity and eventual decline of the modes of terror and wonder it aroused. For thousands of years, humans knew nearly nothing about the earth. Certain locations on the map simply read ‘Terra Incognita’. Corbin recounts the many errors and uncertainties that littered the paths we followed in the attempt to discover the secrets of our blue planet, with a particular focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when the mysteries of volcanoes, the polar regions, glaciers, the stratosphere and the oceans began to be uncovered. While ignorance stimulated our ancestors’ imagination, Corbin’s history of ignorance reawakens our thirst for knowledge and changes our view of the world.
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Identifying gaps in knowledge is the first duty of any historian who sets out to understand the past. It is impossible fully to understand our forebears without some idea of what they did not know: the history of ignorance is an indispensable part of history itself. Here Alain Corbin focuses on our planet, exploring its mysteries past and present, and the intensity and eventual decline of the modes of terror and wonder it aroused. For thousands of years, humans knew nearly nothing about the earth. Certain locations on the map simply read ‘Terra Incognita’. Corbin recounts the many errors and uncertainties that littered the paths we followed in the attempt to discover the secrets of our blue planet, with a particular focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when the mysteries of volcanoes, the polar regions, glaciers, the stratosphere and the oceans began to be uncovered. While ignorance stimulated our ancestors’ imagination, Corbin’s history of ignorance reawakens our thirst for knowledge and changes our view of the world.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 188
ISBN-13: 9781509546251
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1509546251
Kategori: Historie
Udg. Dato: 25 jun 2021
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 222mm
Højde: 144mm
Forlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Oplagsdato: 25 jun 2021
Forfatter(e): Alain Corbin
Forfatter(e) Alain Corbin

Kategori Historie

ISBN-13 9781509546251

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 188

Udgave

Længde 25mm

Bredde 222mm

Højde 144mm

Udg. Dato 25 jun 2021

Oplagsdato 25 jun 2021

Forlag John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Kategori sammenhænge