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Astronomy Clock and watch makers Great Britain Biography Copernicus, Nicolaus 1473-1543 Copernicus, Nicolaus 1473-1543 Influence Delano, Amasa 1763-1823 Harrison, John 1693-1776 Slave insurrections South America History 19th century Slave trade South America History 19th century Slavery South America History 19th century Solar systemJasanoff, Maya
Summary: At the end of the American Revolution, 60,000 Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 JASSobel, Dava.
Summary: Recounts John Harrison's invention of the marine chronometer in eighteenth-century England.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 526.62 SOBSobel, Dava.
Summary: Sobel paints an unforgettable portrait of the Copernican Revolution. Encouraged by his German protégé, Polish cleric Nicolaus Copernicus published his heliocentric model of the universe, tantalizing 16th-century mathematicians and scientists--and triggering a groundswell of opposition.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SOBEL, DAVA SOBGrandin, Greg
Summary: Grandin documents an extraordinary early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014