Aristotle leads the way
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Washington, DC :
Smithsonian Books,
2004.
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Table of 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 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
- 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
- Suggested reading
- NSTA recommends
- Picture credits
- Permissions
- Index.
