Uncommon sense
Subtitle: understanding nature's truths across time and culture
By: Anthony Aveni.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780870818288
Subjects: Astronomy; Astronomy -- Social aspects; Astrology; Space and time; Science -- Social aspects; Science -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What was that star?; title: Where orbits came from and how the Greeks unstacked the deck; title: Why you can't have a big bang without Darwin and vice versa; title: When disciplines collide : from dinosaurs to the dogon; title: What's in a number?; title: Time, the city, and a King's dilemma; title: Space : are maps really territory?; title: Lists : does everybody do science?; title: Symbols : the natural history of a [pecked cross]; title: Last Words