LEADER 03094oam 2200505 450 001 9910337870303321 005 20210201142238.0 010 $a3-030-17509-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-17509-2 035 $a(OCoLC)1235812497 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL59UP 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007992578 100 $a20210125h20192019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe dawn of science $eglimpses from history for the curious mind /$fThanu Padmanabhan, Vasanthi Padmanabhan 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer Nature,$d[2019] 210 4$d?2019 215 $a1 online resource (x, 286 pages) $cillustrations (chiefly color), charts 225 0 $aGale eBooks 311 $a3-030-17508-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIn the Beginning -- The Athenian Contribution -- From the Ishango Bone to Euclid -- Archimedes - the Giant among the Ancients -- The Healing Art and Its Science -- The Legacy from the Arab World -- The Indo-Arabic Numerals -- The Printing of a Page -- Exploring the 'Seven Seas' -- The First Steps of Modern Medicine -- Making the Earth Move -- The Logarithm - An Unsung Hero -- The Way of the Wanderers -- The Galileo and the Dynamical World -- Affairs of the Heart -- The Weight of the Intangible -- Geometry Without Figures -- Life's Infinite Vaiety: Finding Order in Species -- A Measure of the Heavens -- Calculus Developed in South India -- Story of the Calendar -- And Then All was Light - The Thirst for Power -- Chemistry Comes of Age. . 330 $aThis lucid and captivating book takes the reader back to the early history of all the sciences, starting from antiquity and ending roughly at the time of Newton ? covering the period which can legitimately be called the ?dawn? of the sciences. Each of the 24 chapters focuses on a particular and significant development in the evolution of science, and is connected in a coherent way to the others to yield a smooth, continuous narrative. The at-a-glance diagrams showing the ?When? and ?Where? give a brief summary of what was happening at the time, thereby providing the broader context of the scientific events highlighted in that chapter. Embellished with colourful photographs and illustrations, and ?boxed? highlights scattered throughout the text, this book is a must-read for everyone interested in the history of science, and how it shaped our world today. 606 $aScience 606 $aMedicine 606 $aBiology 606 $aChemistry 615 0$aScience. 615 0$aMedicine. 615 0$aBiology. 615 0$aChemistry. 676 $a530.09 700 $aPadmanabhan$b Thanu$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$049516 702 $aPadmanabhan$b Vasanthi 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910337870303321 996 $aThe Dawn of Science$92509763 997 $aUNINA