Aristotle leads the way
By: Joy Hakim.
Series: Story of science
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Science -- History -- Popular works.; Astronomy -- History -- Popular works.; Mathematics -- History -- Popular works.; Physics -- History -- Popular works.
Genres: Popular works.
Other titles: Story of science, Aristotle leads the way
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A Writer's reasons; title: There's more to this story; title: Birthing a universe; title: Telling it like they thought it was: myths of creation; title: Making days: were the calendar makers lunatics or just moonstruck?; title: Ionia? What's Ionia?; title: The "A" team; title: Elementary matters: earth, air, fire, and water, says Empedocles; title: Being at sea; title: Worshiping numbers; title: Pythagoras knows it's round; title: Getting atom; title: Aristotle and his teacher; title: Does it change? No way, says A; title: Aristarchus got it right-well, almost!; title: Alexander's city; title: What's a hero?; title: Euclid in his elements; title: Archimedes' claw; title: Measuring the Earth; title: Rome rules; title: Longitude and latitude plus two Greek mapmakers; title: The greatest; title: A saint who was no scientist; title: No joke-the Earth is pancake flat!; title: Don't worry-the round Earth is back!; title: Absolute zero; title: An "ox" who bellowed; title: Books will do it; title: The Antipodes: discovering down under; title: Cosmic voyagers: is it fiction, or could it be true?; title: Finally! How science works; title: The prime number sieve of Eratosthenes.