Author: Jean-Yves Blot
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Keywords: discoveries, abrams, underwater, archaeology
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 1996-09-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0810928590
ISBN-13: 9780810928596

A study of underwater archaeology examines the various ways in which it has evolved from the diving bell to the Aqua-Lung to today’s marine robots, accompanied by before and after images of objects reclaimed from the sea. Original.

Author: Alessandro Vezzosi
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Keywords: discoveries, abrams, harry, vinci, leonardo
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0810928094
ISBN-13: 9780810928091

Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most outstanding intellectuals of the Renaissance. An entirely self taught intellectual giant, he was endlessly curious about the physical world. His notebooks reveal the breadth of his research into subjects as diverse as anatomy, botany, physics, and engineering, including his extraordinary anticipation of modern technology. The author traces his life from birth through to his apprenticeship in Florence and work in Milan, Rome and Amboise. His skill as an artist is captured in reproductions of pages from his beautifully illustrated notebooks, and masterpieces

Author: George Smith
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Keywords: discoveries, nineveh, site, account, assyrian, explorations
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 1931956030
ISBN-13: 9781931956031

During 1873 and 1874, George Smith took part in excavations at the Assyrian site of Nineveh. In this book, he gives an account, with illustrations, of the excavations.

Authors:Richard Hakluyt, Jack Beeching,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: english, discoveries, voyages, library, nat, traffiques, principal, navigations, amp
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1972-07-30
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0140430733
ISBN-13: 9780140430738

Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England’s first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the sixteenth-century English. One of the epics of this great period of expansion, "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation" describes, in the words of the explorers themselves, an astonishing era in which the English grew rapidly aware of the sheer size and strangeness of their world. Mingling accounts of the journeys of renowned adventurers such as Drake

Author: Jonathan Shectman
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: discoveries, groundbreaking, inventions, experiments, scientific, ages, century
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-09-30
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0313320152
ISBN-13: 9780313320156

In over 60 alphabetical entries, Shectman examines at the tremendous scientific discoveries, inventions, and inquiries of the period. Familiar topics such as the steam engine and hot air balloon are covered, along with lesser-known topics such as the Watt copy press and Newton’s experimentum crucis. A thorough discussion of each entry’s scientific impact provides readers with an understanding of the lasting social and political importance of these advancements.

Author: p>Michael</p> <p>Windelspecht</p
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: discoveries, groundbreaking, inventions, experiments, scientific, ages, century
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-11-30
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0313315019
ISBN-13: 9780313315015

Author: Robert E. Krebs
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: discoveries, ages, groundbreaking, inventions, scientific, experiments, renaissance, middle
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2004-03-30
List price: $71.95
ISBN-10: 0313324336
ISBN-13: 9780313324338

The Middle Ages and the Renaissance were a period of scientific and literary reawakening. This reference work describes more than 75 experiments, inventions, and discoveries of the period, as well as the scientists, physicians, and scholars responsible for them. Individuals such as Leonardo da Vinci, Marco Polo, and Galileo are included, along with entries on reconstructive surgery, Stonehenge, eyeglasses, the microscope, and the discovery of smallpox.