The Discoverers

Recommended in Program(s): Challenge IV

Cycle(s): N/A

Perhaps the greatest book by one of our greatest historians, The Discoverers is a volume of sweeping range and majestic interpretation. To call it a history of science is an understatement; this is the story of how humankind has come to know the world, however incompletely. The great discoverers, Boorstin shows, dispel the illusions and reveal something new about the world.

• • Paperback
  • 768 pages
  • © 1985