VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY -- JANUARY 2007

 

 

 

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

 

 

January 2007’s display for the month centers on the theme of “New Year…New Horizons”.  The 15^th and 16^th centuries were the ages of many remarkable inventions, discoveries, and voyages of exploration.  Below is a list of suggested books and websites for further reading:

 

·        Gingerich, Owen.: The book nobody read :chasing the revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus /Owen Gingerich. New York : Walker & Co., 2004. QB41 .G38 2004

 

·        Sobel, Dava.: Galileo's daughter :a historical memoir of science, faith, and love /Dava Sobel. New York : Walker & Co., 1999. QB36.G2 S65 1999

 

·        Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.: Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, Ptolemaic & Copernican /Galileo Galilei ; translated and with revisied notes by Stillman Drake ; foreword by Albert Einstein ; introduction by J.L. Heilbron. New York : Modern Library, c2001. QB41 .G129413 2001

 

·        Sobel, Dava.: Longitude :the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time /Dava Sobel. New York : Penguin, 1996, c1995. QB225 .S677 1996

 

·        Watson, F. (Fred): Stargazer : the life and times of the telescope /Fred Watson. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2005. QB88 .W38 2005

 

·        The discovery of time /edited by Stuart McCready. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2001. QB209 .D57 2001

 

·        Ferguson, Kitty.: Tycho & Kepler :the unlikely partnership that forever changed our understanding of the heavens /Kitty Ferguson. New York : Walker & Co., 2002. QB36.B8 F47 200

 

·        Mandeville, John, Sir.: The travels of Sir John Mandeville /translated with an introduction by C.W.R.D. Moseley. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1983. G370.M2 M3613 1983

 

·        Galison, Peter Louis.: Einstein's clocks and Poincaré's maps :empires of time /by Peter Galison. New York : W.W. Norton, c2003. QB209 .G35 2003

 

·        Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.: Principia /by Isaac Newton; edited, with commentary, by Stephen Hawking. Philadelphia : Running Press, c2002. QA803 .N413 2002

 

·        Lasky, Kathryn.: The Librarian who measured the earth /Kathryn Lasky ; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. Boston : Little,Brown and Company, c1994. QB36.E73 L37 1994

 

·        Cook, James, 1728-1779.: Seventy north to fifty south; the story of Captain Cook's last voyage, wherein are discovered numerous South Pacific islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the coast of North America, and Alaska. Condensed, edited, and annotated by Paul W. Dale. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1969] G420 .C69 1969

 

·        Roditi, Edouard.: Magellan of the Pacific. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co. [1973, c1972] G286.M2 B62 1973

 

·        Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512.: Letters from a new world : Amerigo Vespucci's Discovery of America /edited and with an introduction by Luciano Formisano. New York : Marsilio, 1992 E125.V5 L48 1992

 

·        Kuhn, Thomas S.: The Copernican Revolution.  New York, MJF Books [1957, 1985] QB 41 .C815 K8 1985

 

·        Fleming, Fergus:  Barrow’s Boys.  New York, Atlantic Monthly Press [1998]  G 242 .F64 2000

 

·        Cuyvers, Luc.  Into the Rising Sun : Vasco da Gama and the Search for the Sea Route to the East.  New York, TV Books 1999  G 286 .G2 C89 1999

 

 

Some Interesting Websites

 

http://science.howstuffworks.com/question663.htm  and http://www.wingsandwheels.com/Galileo.htm.  These are two sites about Galileo thermometers.

 

http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/  The European Voyages of exploration.

 

http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/museum/cook/cook.html  Captain James Cook and his three voyages.

 

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/expeditions-collecting/voyages-discovery/    The Natural History Museum, Charles Darwin, Captain James Cook and others.

 

http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/primary.html  This site lists a collection of primary sources on the Web that the explorers wrote themselves about their travels and adventures.

 

http://www.dlmark.net/vasco.htm  Vasco da Gama

 

http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/  a website for Christopher Columbus and his navigation.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_navigation  an introduction to Celestial navigation from Wikipedia.

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