Scientific explorers : travels in search of knowledge / Rebecca Stefoff.

• Lamp of science -- Pursuing knowledge in far places: First scientific expeditions -- Awakening of Egypt -- Charting the American West -- Science at sea -- Artists in the Pacific -- Naturalists in the Great unknown: South American adventure -- African adventure -- Asian adventure -- Exploration and evolution -- Exploring new worlds: World beneath the waves -- Space--Final frontier -- New kind of exploration -- Index.

• Discusses the history of scientific exploration with emphasis on the discoveries of Captain James Cook, Charles Darwin, and Alexander von Humboldt. 

Ämnesord

Forskningsresande  (sao)

Forskningsresor  (sao)

Upptäcktshistoria  (sao)

Upptäcktsresor  (sao)

Upptäcktsresande  (sao)

Scientific expeditions  -- History -- Juvenile literature. (LCSH)

Explorers  -- Juvenile literature. (LCSH)

Explorers.  (LCSH Children)

Scientific expeditions  -- History. (LCSH Children)

Explorers.  (fast)

Scientific expeditions.  (fast)

Expedities.  (gtt)

Ontdekkingsreizen.  (gtt)

Explorers.  (sears)

Scientific expeditions  -- History. (sears)

Discoveries in geography  (LCSH)

Discoveries in geography  (LCSH)

Scientific expeditions  (LCSH)

Explorers  (LCSH)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Juvenile works.  (fast)

Literature.  (lcgft)

Children's nonfiction. 

Personnamn

Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Juvenile literature.

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Juvenile literature.

Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 -- Juvenile literature.

Cook, James, 1728-1779.

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.

Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.

Cook, James, 1728-1779.

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.

Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.

Cook, James, 1728-1779

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882

Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Scientific expeditions

Klassifikation

Q115 (LCC)

509 (DDC)

74.05 (bcl)

U:k (kssb/8 (machine generated))