Science in the Ancient World An Encyclopedia

Untitled......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Why Study the History of Science......Page 134
Guide to the Reader......Page 136
toc......Page 144
5000 Collision Events and Geological History......Page 154
5000 Climatic Changes in the Earth's History......Page 160
5000 Post-glacial world - the dawn of civilization......Page 164
The Beginning of Science......Page 175
The Beginning of Science......Page 187
The Sumerian Heritage......Page 191
Climate and Civilization......Page 194
Origins of the Egyptian Civilization......Page 203
Egyptian mathematics......Page 204
Mathematics and Astronomy in Mesopotamia......Page 219
The Scribes......Page 228
The Hittites......Page 230
The Iron Age......Page 239
The Greeks......Page 254
The Hebrews and their Bible......Page 263
Origins of Philosophy and Metaphysics......Page 277
Ancient Eastern Philosophy......Page 281
Myth and Number - Our Pythagorean Heritage......Page 293
The Earth as a Sphere......Page 305
The Sophists......Page 320
Monasteries and Monks or,- the case of the ignorant copyists (529-1100)......Page 621
Monasteries and Monks or,- the case of the ignorant copyists (529-1100)......Page 632
The great Hindu mathematicians (500 BCE-1400 CE)......Page 642
The Translators......Page 654
The Hebrew Golden Age of Reason (900-1600)......Page 668
The Viking Invasions in the Medieval Warm Period (787-1066)......Page 682
Rise of the European Universities (1050-1582)......Page 710
The Friars (ca 1200)......Page 715
Beyond the Greeks - The Emergence of Modern Science......Page 1029
Beyond the Greeks - The Emergence of Modern Science......Page 1044
Abstraction and Unification......Page 1844
Demise of the Dogmatic Universe......Page 2909
Deep Principles – Complex Structures......Page 5179