Forgotten: How One Man Unlocked the Modern World - Hardcover
by Jaime Dávila
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Quinto Malo BooksISBN-13:9798998953705UPC:9798998953705Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Expeditions & DiscoveriesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCS6FXGZ5E
Forgotten: How One Man Unlocked the Modern World
What if humanity's most important invention wasn't the steam engine or the printing press, but a machine that you've never heard of, built by a man that history forgot?
Eight billion people owe their lives to a man you've never heard of. In Forgotten, Jaime Dávila uncovers the astonishing true story of Cornelis Corneliszoon, a 16th-century Dutch tinkerer whose simple invention - the wind-powered...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Quinto Malo BooksISBN-13:9798998953705UPC:9798998953705Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Expeditions & DiscoveriesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCS6FXGZ5E
Dávila, Jaime: - Jaime Dávila is a lifelong student of history, fascinated by the ways technological, economic, artistic, and political ideas have shaped human destiny. He counts among his influences Dava Sobel, Will and Ariel Durant, Sir Kenneth Clark, Jared Diamond, and Yuval Harari, writers whose sweeping syntheses inspired him to attempt his own. After a career as a business executive, Dávila...
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