Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 In the Beginning …
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   Chapter 2 The Athenian Contribution
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   Chapter 3 From the Ishango Bone to Euclid
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   Chapter 4 Archimedes — the Giant Among the Ancients
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   Chapter 5 The Healing Art and Its Science
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   Chapter 6 The Legacy from the Arab World
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   Chapter 7 The Indo-Arabic Numerals
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   Chapter 8 The Printing of a Page
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    Chapter 9 Exploring the ‘Seven Seas’
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    Chapter 10 The First Steps of Modern Medicine
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    Chapter 11 Making the Earth Move
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    Chapter 12 The Logarithm — An Unsung Hero
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    Chapter 13 The Way of the Wanderers
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    Chapter 14 Galileo and the Dynamical World
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    Chapter 15 Affairs of the Heart
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    Chapter 16 The Weight of the Intangible
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    Chapter 17 Geometry without Figures
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    Chapter 18 Life’s Infinite Variety : Finding Order in Species
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    Chapter 19 A Measure of the Heavens
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    Chapter 20 Calculus Developed in South India
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    Chapter 21 Story of the Calendar
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    Chapter 22 And Then All Was Light
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    Chapter 23 The Thirst for Power
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    Chapter 24 Chemistry Comes of Age