{"product_id":"terra-incognita-a-history-of-ignorance-in-the-18th-and-19th-centuries-paperback-softback-9781509546268","title":"Terra Incognita; A History of Ignorance in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509546268","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTerra Incognita\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History of Ignorance in the 18th and 19th Centuries\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlain Corbin (Author), Susan Pickford (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509546268, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 25 June 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e188 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.3 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Alain Corbin is one of the most remarkable historians writing about anything anywhere. A master of innovation in his choice of subjects and approaches to history, Corbin here brilliantly tackles “ignorance” in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, what earlier generations did not know. This is a fascinating book, nicely translated.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Merriman, Yale University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Original as always in his approach to history, Alain Corbin tells the story of the discovery of the earth from 1750 to 1900 by emphasizing earlier ignorance of lands, seas and space. Written in the author’s usual lucid and accessible style, the book will appeal to general readers as well as scholars and students of history.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Burke, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Fascinating’\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eShepherd Express\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdentifying 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 \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e know: the history of ignorance is an indispensable part of history itself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A comprehensive history implies the study of ignorance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part I : Gaps In Enlightenment Knowledge Of The Earth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Age of the Earth?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Imagining the Earth’s Internal Structure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Mystery of the Poles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Unfathomable Mysteries of the Deep Sea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Discovering Mountains\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Mysterious Glaciers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. A Fascination for Volcanos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Birth of Meteorology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Conquering the Skies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. The State of Scientific Ignorance at the End of the Age of Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part II : A Gradual Decline in Ignorance (1800-1850)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. Understanding Glaciers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Birth of Geology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. Volcanoes and the Mystery of ‘Dry Fogs’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15.The Ocean Depths and the Fear of the Unknown \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 16. Reading Clouds and the Beaufort Scale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 17.The Poles Remain a Mystery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 18.  The State of Scientific Ignorance in the Early 1860s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part III : Shrinking the Boundaries of Ignorance (1860-1900)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 19. Exploring the Ocean Depths\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 20.  The Development of Dynamic Meteorology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 21.  Manned Flight and the Discovery of the Troposphere and Stratosphere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 22. Scientific Volcanology and the Birth of Seismology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 23.  Measuring the Grip of Ice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 24.  Solving the Mysteries of Rivers : Fluvialism, Hydrology and Speleology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 25.  A New Approach to Reading the Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 26.  Was There Open Sea at the Poles?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 27. The Earth Sciences Slowly Filter into General Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 28. Measuring Ignorance at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52501188739352,"sku":"9781509546268","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509546268.jpg?v=1786215849","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/terra-incognita-a-history-of-ignorance-in-the-18th-and-19th-centuries-paperback-softback-9781509546268","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}