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February 13, 2024 | History
An edition of Aristotle leads the way (2004)

Aristotle leads the way

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The Story of Science follows the human quest to learn, an approach to history intended to inspire and inform.. Will the 20th century be remembered for its succession of wars. or for relativity, quantum theory and technological marvels? What is quantum theory? What is relativity? How do we teach those big ideas?
In this book, readers travel back in time to ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece, India, and the Arab world. They explore the lives and ideas of people like Pythagoras, Archimedes, Brahmagupta, Al Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Ptolemy, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas. Those ancients asked questions that would eventually lead to modern science. They often got the wrong answers, but that question-asking was essential. Read this book and you'll understand why.

Combine ancient history, hands on science activities, and some research and writing using this book.

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Smithsonian Books
Language
English
Pages
282

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2004
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Table of Contents

A 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?
The "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
The greatest
A saint who was no scientist
No joke-the Earth is pancake flat!
Don't worry-the round Earth is back!
Absolute zero
An "ox" who bellowed
Books will do it
The Antipodes: discovering down under
Cosmic voyagers: is it fiction, or could it be true?
Finally! How science works
The prime number sieve of Eratosthenes.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Washington
Series
Story of science
Genre
Popular works.
Other Titles
Story of science, Aristotle leads the way

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
509
Library of Congress
Q126 .H35 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
282 p. :
Number of pages
282

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3314909M
Internet Archive
aristotleleadswa0000haki
ISBN 10
1588341607
LCCN
2004107324
OCLC/WorldCat
56675323
Library Thing
34617
Goodreads
227561

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