SHORES of

KNOWLEDGE

New World Discoveries

and the Scientific Imagination

JOYCE APPLEBY

在這個廣泛又全面的題材中，知名歷史學家喬伊斯．艾波比賦予了大航海時代全新的意義，生動的描述當時冒險家如何撼動了昔日歐洲固有的觀念與信仰。當哥倫布自他的加勒比海首航返抵西班牙，對於那些他旅途上遭遇的人士，與攜回的人及動植物，人們對此的好奇心逐漸蔓延整個大陸。很顯然地這些珍禽奇獸與奇花異草，打破了固來聖經對於世界起源的假定。艾波比生動地描寫當時收藏滿箱滿櫃奇珍的貴族，隱藏在歷史背後的成功與災難故事，那些與歐洲人接觸而被迫陷入動亂的社會，以及一群以全新觀點營營於國內外的博物學家。這個時期的科學新發現，將導致日後思想大爆炸，集大成於達爾文的進化論。

In this sweeping, global story, eminent historian Joyce Appleby imbues the Age of Discovery with fresh meaning and vividly recounts how the explorers shook up European ideas and beliefs. When Columbus returned to Spain from his first trip to the Caribbean, curiosity began to percolate throughout the continent about the people he had met and the men, animals, and plants he brought back with him. These seemingly strange fauna and flora ruptured long-held biblical assumptions about the creation of the world. Compellingly told are the triumphs and mishaps of the noblemen who collected cabinets of curiosities, the societies thrown into turmoil by their encounters with Europeans, and the naturalists who looked abroad and at home with new eyes. The scientific discoveries of this time would lead to an explosion of ideas, culminating in Darwin's theory of evolution.

■喬伊斯．艾波比／Joyce Appleby

Joyce Appleby, professor of history emerita at UCLA, is the author of, among others works, The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism, and is a recipient of the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Prize. She lives in Taos, New Mexico.

作者：喬伊斯．艾波比／Joyce Appleby

版本：Reprint Edition

規格：平裝／Paperback，14 x 21.1 x 2.1 cm，320頁

出版商：W. W. Norton & Company

出版日期：2014年10月13日

語言：英文

ISBN-13：978-0-393-34979-5

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