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.
General
| Imprint: |
Polity Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
June 2021 |
| Authors: |
A Corbin
|
| Dimensions: |
212 x 149 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
188 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5095-4626-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-5095-4626-X |
| Barcode: |
9781509546268 |
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