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Series: From Darwin to Dark Energy 250 Milestones in the History of Science
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Language: English
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Toc: Title Page......Page 2Copyright......Page 3Contents......Page 5Introduction......Page 15c. 18,000 BCE Ishango Bone Clifford A. Pickover......Page 21c. 11,000 BCE Wheat: The Staff of Life Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald......Page 23c. 10,000 BCE Agriculture Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald......Page 26c. 10,000 BCE Domestication of Animals Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald......Page 29c. 7000 BCE Rice Cultivation Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald......Page 32c. 5000 BCE Birth of Cosmology Jim Bell......Page 35c. 3300 BCE Bronze Derek B. Lowe......Page 38c. 3000 BCE Dice Clifford A. Pickover......Page 40c. 3000 BCE Sundial Clifford A. Pickover......Page 43c. 3000 BCE Sutures Clifford A. Pickover......Page 46c. 2500 BCE Egyptian Astronomy Jim Bell......Page 49c. 1850 BCE Arch Clifford A. Pickover......Page 52c. 1650 BCE Rhind Papyrus Clifford A. Pickover......Page 55c. 1300 BCE Iron Smelting Derek B. Lowe......Page 57c. 1000 BCE Olmec Compass Clifford A. Pickover......Page 60c. 600 BCE Pythagorean Theorem and Triangles Clifford A. Pickover......Page 63c. 600 BCE Sewage Systems Clifford A. Pickover......Page 66c. 350 BCE Aristotle’s Organon Clifford A. Pickover......Page 69c. 350 BCE Platonic Solids Clifford A. Pickover......Page 72c. 300 BCE Euclid’s Elements Clifford A. Pickover......Page 75c. 250 BCE Archimedes’ Principle of Buoyancy Clifford A. Pickover......Page 77c. 250 BCE π Clifford A. Pickover......Page 80c. 240 BCE Eratosthenes Measures the Earth Clifford A. Pickover......Page 83c. 240 BCE Sieve of Eratosthenes Clifford A. Pickover......Page 85c. 230 BCE Pulley Clifford A. Pickover......Page 88c. 125 BCE Antikythera Mechanism Clifford A. Pickover......Page 91c. 50 Gears Clifford A. Pickover......Page 94c. 126 Roman Concrete Derek B. Lowe......Page 97c. 650 Zero Clifford A. Pickover......Page 100830 al-Khwarizmi’s Algebra Clifford A. Pickover......Page 103c. 850 Gunpowder Derek B. Lowe......Page 1061202 Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci Clifford A. Pickover......Page 1081284 Eyeglasses Clifford A. Pickover......Page 111c. 1500 Early Calculus Jim Bell......Page 1131509 Golden Ratio Clifford A. Pickover......Page 1161543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica Clifford A. Pickover......Page 1191543 Sun-Centered Universe Clifford A. Pickover......Page 1221545 Paré’s “Rational Surgery” Clifford A. Pickover......Page 1251572 Imaginary Numbers Cli