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• Title:Science : antiqvity and its legacy / Philippa Lang.
  
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• Variant Title:Science : antiquity and its legacy
  
• Author/Creator:Lang, Philippa, 1974- author.
  
• Published/Created:London : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: Q124.95 .L36 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Science--History.
  
• Description:xiv, 226 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Series:Ancients and moderns series.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-210) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781780761718
  1780761716
  9780857739551 (eISBN)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. I Strange Worlds
  Pre-Socratics
  Pigeons and the Physicists
  In the Beginning
  Nothing Can Come Out of Nothing
  Uses of Infinity
  Mechanics of Eternity
  Problems with Time
  Growing Seeds and Bouncing Universes
  ch. II Strange Creatures
  Origins of Life
  Implications of Fossils
  Origins of Species
  Origins of Successful Theories
  Plato and Primates
  ch. III Natural Laws And How To Discover Them
  Category `Nature'
  Aristotle and the Modern Scientific Method
  Objects in Space
  Objects in Motion (I)
  Objects in Motion (II)
  Motion into Empty Spaces
  Paradigm Shirts
  ch. IV Illness And Disease
  Medical Cultures
  Naturalistic Medicine: An Influential Meme
  When to Use an Amulet
  QED?
  Contagion Superstition
  Theories about Women
  ch. V Controlling The World
  Rhomboids Are Forever
  First Find Your Mathematician
  Rise of the Astronomers
  Mapping the World
  Mapping the Cosmos
  Empire by Numbers
  Rise of the Machine-Makers
  Cubes, Catapults, Computers
  Formulas to Live by
  Weaponise Your Way to Inner Peace
  ch. VI Then And Now
  On Not Being Human
  Tomorrow's Pseudo-Science
  Hippocrates in the Twenty-First Century.