Scientific Exploration and Expeditions: From the Age of Discovery to the Twenty-first Century

Scientific Exploration and Expeditions: From the Age of Discovery to the Twenty-first Century by Neil A. Hamilton
M E Sha rpe Refe rence | 2010 | ISBN: 0765680769 | 406 pages | PDF | 11,1 MB

This two-volume set, aimed at middle-school students, provides information on explorers and scientists, as well as their expeditions and investigations, in eighty articles. Beginning with the "Age of Discovery" (that is, approximately 1420, the time of Prince Henry the Navigator), this set summarizes the most important discoveries in fields from polar exploration and paleontology to African explorers, archeology, and anthropology, covering events up to mid-2009. Both important expeditions and essential discoveries by scientists such as Charles Darwin appear, and explorations on all seven continents are detailed. Other articles furnish surveys of related fields, such as maps and mapmaking, as well as space exploration.