Lost discoveries : the ancient roots of modern science-- from the Babylonians to the Maya

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Lost discoveries : the ancient roots of modern science-- from the Babylonians to the Maya / Dick Teresi.

Summary:

This book, an innovative history of science, explores the scientific breakthroughs from peoples of the ancient world--Babylonians, Egyptians, Indians, Africans, New World and Oceanic tribes, among others--and the non-European medieval world. They left an enormous heritage in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, physics, geology, chemistry, and technology. The first comprehensive, authoritative, popularly written, multicultural history of science, Lost discoveries fills a crucial gap in the history of science.

Record details

ISBN: 0684837188
ISBN: 9780684837185
ISBN: 096549053X (pb)
ISBN: 9780965490535 (pb)
Physical Description: ix, 453 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-430) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: History of science, rediscovered -- Mathematics, the language of science -- Astronomy, sky watchers and more -- Cosmology, that old-time religion -- Physics, particle, voids, and fields -- Geology, stories of earth itself -- Chemistry, alchemy and beyond -- Technology, machines as a measure of man.