Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science, from the Babylonians to the Maya

ISBN-10
096549053X
ISBN-13
9780965490535
Series
Lost Discoveries
Category
Science
Pages
453
Language
English
Published
2002
Author
Dick Teresi

Description

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.

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