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Article: `The Book Nobody Read' and `Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World'.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- April 7, 2004
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Byline: Roger Moore
``The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus'' by Owen Gingerich; Walker & Co. ($25)
``Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World'' by Jack Weatherford; Crown ($25)
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How does knowledge spread from person to person, nation to nation, and hemisphere to hemisphere? Today, we know the pathways it takes _ TV, newspapers, books, magazines, the Internet. But how were new discoveries passed on in the pre-Information Highway ages?
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