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The Invention of Discovery
Part 1: Travel and Discovery in Antiquity
[Note: This post is dedicated to my friend Jack Wright, Regents Professor of Geography at New Mexico State University, like Herodotus an inveterate traveler, like Pytheas a curious wanderer.] Humans are by nature discoverers. Anthropologists tell us that our earliest discoveries, the ones that have been taken to define human nature—the invention of tools, for […]
