Eureka! : what Archimedes really meant / Michael Macrone ; illustrations by Tom Lulevitch.
Eureka! : what Archimedes really meant / Michael Macrone ; illustrations by Tom Lulevitch.
Eureka! : what Archimedes really meant / Michael Macrone ; illustrations by Tom Lulevitch.
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Publisher
New York : HarperCollins, c1994.
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T0357359
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 253 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Contents
Philosophy. Watchmaker, Gambler, or What?: Ideas of God. Ideas from Long Ago: Greek Philosophy. Cogito Ergo Huh?: Beginnings of Modern Philosophy. -Isms, -Ologies, and other Alarming Developments: Philosophy since the Nineteenth Century -- Science and Mathematics. What Goes Up Must Come Down: Basic...
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Publisher
New York : HarperCollins, c1994.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1994.
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Summary
From the sacred to the profane, the economic to the existential, chaos theory to the global village, Eureka! translates the most significant theories, laws, principles, and paradoxes into powerful, clear, and entertaining stories. Francis Bacon once said, "Knowledge itself is power," and Eureka! provides the power by making knowledge fun....
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Eureka! : what Archimedes really meant / Michael Macrone ; illustrations by Tom Lulevitch.
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"Cader Books."
Includes index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from REF/N001/39.
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c1994.
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T0357359
Record Identifier
74VK7r5roOp3
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ISBN
0062700960 :
9780062700964 :
DDC
001
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991022850659702626
