Robbin, Irving

Discusses the reasons people have wanted to explore new and strange parts of the world and how these explorations have changed the course of history and our knowledge of the world. Includes such explorers as Leif Ericsson, Marco Polo, Columbus, and Balboa.

Tells how the environment affected architecture from caves to igloos, thatched huts, adobes, up through modern dwellings.

Describes the lives of physicians influential in the world of medicine.

Includes Hippocrates, Galen, Paracelsus, Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Pare, Wm Harvey, Lazaro Spallanzani, Edward Jenner, Wm. Morton, Ignaz Semmelweiss, Rudolf Virchow, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Elie Mechnikoff, Joseph Lister, Loeffler, Roux, Behring, Paul Ehrlich, Walter Reed, Sigmund Freud, Frederick Banting, Gerhard Domagk, Alexander Fleming, & Jonas Salk.

The story of exploration and the reasons why man has always searched for the new and yet unknown. This survey includes the ancient explorers of the East, the Vikings of the North, Marco Polo, Columbus, De Gama, Cabot, Magellan, Cook and modern explorers of outer space and the ocean depths.

Discusses the reasons people have wanted to explore new and strange parts of the world and how these explorations have changed the course of history and our knowledge of the world. Includes such explorers as Leif Ericsson, Marco Polo, Columbus, and Balboa.

Tells how the environment affected architecture from caves to igloos, thatched huts, adobes, up through modern dwellings.