The Dawn of Science Glimpses from History for the Curious Mind /
This lucid and captivating book takes the reader back to the early history of all the sciences, starting from antiquity and ending roughly at the time of Newton - covering the period which can legitimately be called the "dawn" of the sciences. Each of the 24 chapters focuses on a particula...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2019.
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Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- In the Beginning
- The Athenian Contribution
- From the Ishango Bone to Euclid
- Archimedes - the Giant among the Ancients
- The Healing Art and Its Science
- The Legacy from the Arab World
- The Indo-Arabic Numerals
- The Printing of a Page
- Exploring the 'Seven Seas'
- The First Steps of Modern Medicine
- Making the Earth Move
- The Logarithm - An Unsung Hero
- The Way of the Wanderers
- The Galileo and the Dynamical World
- Affairs of the Heart
- The Weight of the Intangible
- Geometry Without Figures
- Life's Infinite Vaiety: Finding Order in Species
- A Measure of the Heavens
- Calculus Developed in South India
- Story of the Calendar
- And Then All was Light - The Thirst for Power
- Chemistry Comes of Age. .