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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Sources and Translations
Foreword
Part I Approaching Thales
1 Who were these ancient masters?
2 A context for Thales
3 Elements of a biography
Part II Five quantitative inquiries
4 How to measure the height of a pyramid
5 Thales dates the
6 From the dating of the
7 What explains a solar eclipse?
8 A measurement of ½˚
Part III Three further investigations on earth, waters and rocks
9 Surface water,
10 The periodic flooding of the Nile and the ‘Atlantic corollary’
11 Thales and the stones of Magnesia
Part IV Other investigations: real and presumed
12 The sky according to Thales
13 To measure the distance of a ship from land
14 Thales and the theorems of plane geometry
15 Thales ‘el injenioso hidalgo’
16 Thales the
Part V Final remarks
17 The ‘new’ fragments of Thales
18 Thales the measurer
19 The research bug
Appendix to Chapter 7
Bibliography
Concordances
Index Locoram
Index
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