The Dawn of Science Glimpses from History for the Curious Mind /

• Main Authors: Padmanabhan, Thanu (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Padmanabhan, Vasanthi (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Physics.; Medicine-History.; Chemistry-History.; Biology-History.; Popular Science in Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History of Medicine.; History of Chemistry.; History of Biology.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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. .