The rise and fall of Alexandria birthplace of the modern world
Looks at the history of the ancient city, documenting its period superiority as an archaeological and technological superpower, revealing how atomic theory, geometry, the steam engine, and other developments were initiated there.
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New York, N..Y :
Penguin Books,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Flour and sand
- Stealing a god
- Egypt reborn
- The legacy of Aristotle
- City of the mind
- Greek pharaohs
- The music of the spheres
- The little O
- The "Eureka" factor
- A Greek tragedy
- The last pharaoh
- The clockwork city
- Urbi et orbi
- Dawn of the iconoclasts
- Into the soft machine
- The ascendancy of faith
- The end of reason
- Hypatia
- The shipwreck of time
- Epilogue: A distant shore.
