A Short History of ScienceMac Millan C,̊, 1918 - 474 sider |
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Side 8
... appear to have been a branch of the great Hamite race of Akkad , which inhabited Baby- lonia from the earliest times . With this race originated the art of writing , the building of cities , the institution of a religious system , and ...
... appear to have been a branch of the great Hamite race of Akkad , which inhabited Baby- lonia from the earliest times . With this race originated the art of writing , the building of cities , the institution of a religious system , and ...
Side 24
... appears in the use on both sides of the globe of what may be called numeral - names for children . In Australia a well - marked case occurs . With all the poverty of the aboriginal languages in numerals , 3 being commonly used as ...
... appears in the use on both sides of the globe of what may be called numeral - names for children . In Australia a well - marked case occurs . With all the poverty of the aboriginal languages in numerals , 3 being commonly used as ...
Side 28
... appear to have been based on a long series of observations , but to have taken no account of the region of visibility of eclipses of the Sun. The periods of the planets in their orbits were approximately deter- mined , but there is no ...
... appear to have been based on a long series of observations , but to have taken no account of the region of visibility of eclipses of the Sun. The periods of the planets in their orbits were approximately deter- mined , but there is no ...
Side 30
... appear that such decompositions , effected by special de- vices or hit upon accidentally , were gradually tabulated ... appears in the suffi- ciently intricate form 14 + + 7 + 36 + 679 + 776 + 194 + 388 . Again : " Rule for dividing 700 ...
... appear that such decompositions , effected by special de- vices or hit upon accidentally , were gradually tabulated ... appears in the suffi- ciently intricate form 14 + + 7 + 36 + 679 + 776 + 194 + 388 . Again : " Rule for dividing 700 ...
Side 40
... appears to have originated there . The Greeks had no zero , and never discovered the immense ad- vantage of a position - system , such as that by which we are able to express all numbers by only ten symbols . Fractions occur not ...
... appears to have originated there . The Greeks had no zero , and never discovered the immense ad- vantage of a position - system , such as that by which we are able to express all numbers by only ten symbols . Fractions occur not ...
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Alexandria algebra Almagest Anaximander ancient angle animals antiquity appear Arabic Archimedes Aristotle arithmetic astronomy Babylonian beginning calculus centre century B.C. CHAPTER chemical chemistry circle civilization computation conic sections Copernicus cosmogony curve Democritus Descartes Diophantus discovered discovery distance earth Egyptians eighteenth century elements engineer equal equations Euclid Euclid's Elements Euphrates Europe evolution example experiment Galileo Galileo Galilei geometry Greece Greek Greek mathematics heavenly bodies heavens Herodotus Hipparchus history of science human ideas important invention Jupiter Kepler knowledge known later laws learning mathe mathematical science mathematicians matics measurement mechanics method Miletus modern moon motion natural Newton nineteenth century observed orbits origin period phenomena philosophy Phoenicians physical planets Plato principle problem progress Ptolemy Pythagoras Pythagorean regarded Roman says scientific sphere spherical square stars telescope Thales theorems theory things tion treatise triangle Tycho Tycho Brahe universe whole