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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 2 Copyright......Page 3 Contents......Page 5 Introduction......Page 15 c. 18,000 BCE Ishango Bone Clifford A. Pickover......Page 21 c. 11,000 BCE Wheat: The Staff of Life Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald......Page 23 c. 10,000 BCE Agriculture Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald......Page 26 c. 10,000 BCE Domestication of Animals Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald......Page 29 c. 7000 BCE Rice Cultivation Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald......Page 32 c. 5000 BCE Birth of Cosmology Jim Bell......Page 35 c. 3300 BCE Bronze Derek B. Lowe......Page 38 c. 3000 BCE Dice Clifford A. Pickover......Page 40 c. 3000 BCE Sundial Clifford A. Pickover......Page 43 c. 3000 BCE Sutures Clifford A. Pickover......Page 46 c. 2500 BCE Egyptian Astronomy Jim Bell......Page 49 c. 1850 BCE Arch Clifford A. Pickover......Page 52 c. 1650 BCE Rhind Papyrus Clifford A. Pickover......Page 55 c. 1300 BCE Iron Smelting Derek B. Lowe......Page 57 c. 1000 BCE Olmec Compass Clifford A. Pickover......Page 60 c. 600 BCE Pythagorean Theorem and Triangles Clifford A. Pickover......Page 63 c. 600 BCE Sewage Systems Clifford A. Pickover......Page 66 c. 350 BCE Aristotle’s Organon Clifford A. Pickover......Page 69 c. 350 BCE Platonic Solids Clifford A. Pickover......Page 72 c. 300 BCE Euclid’s Elements Clifford A. Pickover......Page 75 c. 250 BCE Archimedes’ Principle of Buoyancy Clifford A. Pickover......Page 77 c. 250 BCE π Clifford A. Pickover......Page 80 c. 240 BCE Eratosthenes Measures the Earth Clifford A. Pickover......Page 83 c. 240 BCE Sieve of Eratosthenes Clifford A. Pickover......Page 85 c. 230 BCE Pulley Clifford A. Pickover......Page 88 c. 125 BCE Antikythera Mechanism Clifford A. Pickover......Page 91 c. 50 Gears Clifford A. Pickover......Page 94 c. 126 Roman Concrete Derek B. Lowe......Page 97 c. 650 Zero Clifford A. Pickover......Page 100 830 al-Khwarizmi’s Algebra Clifford A. Pickover......Page 103 c. 850 Gunpowder Derek B. Lowe......Page 106 1202 Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci Clifford A. Pickover......Page 108 1284 Eyeglasses Clifford A. Pickover......Page 111 c. 1500 Early Calculus Jim Bell......Page 113 1509 Golden Ratio Clifford A. Pickover......Page 116 1543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica Clifford A. Pickover......Page 119 1543 Sun-Centered Universe Clifford A. Pickover......Page 122 1545 Paré’s “Rational Surgery” Clifford A. Pickover......Page 125 1572 Imaginary Numbers Cli