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