The Grand Contraption
Subtitle: The World as Myth, Number, and Chance
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780691121338
Subjects: History of science; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Philosophy; Physics; Science / History; Science and civilization; History; Science; Social aspects
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.