The Grand Contraption
Subtitle: The World as Myth, Number, and Chance
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: April 3, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780691130538
Subjects: History of science; Science; Science/Mathematics; History; Earth Sciences; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Philosophy; Physics; Science / History; History & Surveys - General
First sentence: IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA or in the valley of the Nile, you could look around at a landscape interrupted only by a farmhouse or a town or a temple and imagine that the world continued like that.