Dick Teresi, Lost Discoveries : The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--from the Babylonians to the Maya
Simon & Schuster | ISBN:0684837188 | 2002 | PDF | 6 MB | 450 pages
Did Nicolas Copernicus steal his notion that the earth orbited the sun from an Islamic astronomer who lived three centuries earlier? Dick Teresi's innovative history of science, explores the unheralded scientific breakthroughs from peoples of the ancient world -- Babylonians, Egyptians, Indians, Africans, New World and Oceanic tribes, among others -- and the non-European medieval world. They left an enormous heritage in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, physics, geology, chemistry, and technology.
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