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Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a prehuman skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Peking Man and was acclaimed as the missing link between erect hunting apes and our Cro-Magnon ancestors. It also became a provocative piece of evidence in the roiling debate over creationism versus evolution....
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Ľon Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Pantȟon in Paris. By tracking a pendulum's path as it swung repeatedly across the interior of the large ceremonial hall, Foucault offered the first definitive proof -- before an audience that comprised the cream of Parisian society, including the future emperor, Napoleon III -- that the earth revolves on its axis. In this book, Amir Aczel has revealed...
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