Aristotle leads the way

Author

Joy Hakim

Call Number

• *J 509 H (CEN)

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Publication Information

Washington : Smithsonian Books, c2004.

Physical Description

282 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.

Contents

• Writer's reasons
• There's more to this story
• Birthing a universe
• Telling it like they thought it was: myths of creation
• Making days: were the calendar makers lunatics or just moonstruck?
• Ionia? What's Ionia?
• "A" team
• Elementary matters: earth, air, fire, and water, says Empedocles
• Being at sea
• Worshiping numbers
• Pythagoras knows it's round
• Getting atom
• Aristotle and his teacher
• Does it change? No way, says A
• Aristarchus got it right-well, almost!
• Alexander's city
• What's a hero?
• Euclid in his elements
• Archimedes' claw
• Measuring the Earth
• Rome rules
• Longitude and latitude plus two Greek mapmakers
• Greatest
• A saint who was no scientist
• No joke-the Earth is pancake flat!
• Don't worry-the round Earth is back!
• Absolute zero
• "Ox" who bellowed
• Books will do it
• Antipodes: discovering down under
• Cosmic voyagers: is it fiction, or could it be true?
• Finally! How science works
• Prime number sieve of Eratosthenes.