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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
A Writer’s Reasons
Contents
There’s More to This Story
Chapter 1: Birthing a Universe
Chapter 2: Telling It Like They Thought It Was: Myths of Creation
Chapter 3: Making Days: Were the Calendar Makers Lunatics or Just Moonstruck?
Why Does the Moon Dazzle, Then Disappear?
Take a Number, Then Write It Down
Chapter 4: Ionia? What’s Ionia?
Measuring with the Mind
Chapter 5: The “A” Team
More on Numerals, Geometry, and Math’s Origins
Chapter 6: Elementary Matters: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, Says Empedocles
Chapter 7: Being at Sea
Why Do Polestars Take Turns?
Chapter 8: Worshiping Numbers
Chewing on Pi—or Tasting One of Math’s Mysteries
Chapter 9: Pythagoras Knows It’s Round
There’s Gold in Those Irrationals
Chapter 10: Getting Atom
Ode to an Atom
Chapter 11: Aristotle and His Teacher
Plato, Math, and Perfect Numbers
Chapter 12: Does It Change? No Way, Says A
Why Mars Is a Little Loopy
Chapter 13: Aristarchus Got It Right—Well, Almost!
How Far the Moon? It’s About Time
Chapter 14: Alexander’s City
Smoke and Mirrors
Chapter 15: What’s a Hero?
Hero, an Airhead?
Chapter 16: Euclid in His Elements
Numbers: In Their Prime
Chapter 17: Archimedes’ Claw
Is It a Claw or a Flaw?
Chapter 18: Measuring the Earth
How Did Eratosthenes Come So Close?
Chapter 19: Rome Rules
Chapter 20: Longitude and Latitude plus Two Greek Mapmakers
What’s the Point?
Chapter 21: The Greatest
Chapter 22: A Saint Who Was No Scientist
Do You Believe the Polyhistor? Well, Lots of People Did
Chapter 23: No Joke—the Earth Is Pancake Flat!
Chapter 24: Don’t Worry—the Round Earth Is Back!
Chapter 25: Absolute Zero
Mr. Fibonacci’s Numbers
Chapter 26: An “Ox” Who Bellowed
Roger Bacon Predicts
Chapter 27: Books Will Do It
Chapter 28: The Antipodes: Discovering Down Under
Chapter 29: Cosmic Voyagers: Is It Fiction, or Could It Be True?
Chapter 30: Finally! How Science Works
The Prime Number Sieve of Eratosthenes
Suggested Reading
NSTA Recommends
Picture Credits
Permissions
Index
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