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1 Translating Ancient Minds |
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1.1 Egyptian Unit Fractions |
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1.2 Remembering Socrates |
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1.3 Platonic Solids and Plato's Theory of Everything |
20 |
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1.4 Translating Aristotle |
28 |
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1.5 Hipparchus on Compound Statements |
33 |
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1.6 The Ten Means of Ancient Greece |
46 |
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1.7 Archimedes and the Square Root of 3 |
48 |
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1.8 Archimedes and Godfrey |
51 |
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1.9 Eccentrics, Deferents, Epicycles, and Equants |
58 |
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2 Wonder En Is Gheen Wonder |
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2.1 Thomas Harriot and the New World |
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2.2 Galileo's Anagrams and the Moons of Mars |
76 |
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2.3 Galileo's Law of Planetary Motion |
80 |
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2.4 Dialogues |
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2.5 Prisca Sapientia |
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2.6 Wonder En Is Gheen Wonder |
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2.7 Mercurius in Sole Visus |
94 |
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2.8 Hold Your Horses |
98 |
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2.9 Fermat's Fallibility |
104 |
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3 Harmonia Praestabilita |
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3.1 Newton's Birth Date and the Anni Mirabiles |
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3.2 The Fundamental Anagram of Calculus |
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3.3 Newton’s Cats |
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3.4 The Most Teachable of Mortals |
119 |
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3.5 Harmonia Mensurarum |
122 |
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3.6 Berkeley and the Infidel |
131 |
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3.7 The Portraits of Emilie |
132 |
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3.8 Harmonia Praestabilita |
140 |
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3.9 The Doctrine of Chance |
145 |
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4 In the Shadows |
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4.1 Nicolas Fatio and the Cause of Gravity |
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4.2 Lesage's Shadows |
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4.3 Fatio, Lesage, and the Camisards |
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4.4 Historical Assessments of the Fatio-Lesage Theory |
193 |
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4.5 Omni-Directional Flux |
206 |
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5 Metamorphosis |
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5.1 Saturnday, Sunday, Moonday |
223 |
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5.2 Gamaliel's Principle |
224 |
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5.3 Benevolent Design and the Anthropic Principle |
229 |
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5.4 Mayan Numeration |
241 |
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5.5 The Metamorphosis of Judas Iscariot |
243 |
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6 More Light |
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6.1 Franklin’s Magin Squares |
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6.2 Zur Farbenlehre |
250 |
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6.3 The Longitude of Lewis and Clark |
259 |
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6.4 Gauss's Children and Adam's Gold |
261 |
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6.5 Galois's Analysis of Analysis |
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6.6 The Thought of a Thought |
267 |
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6.7 Spiritualism and Electromagnetism |
287 |
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6.8 Dodgson’s Paradox |
293 |
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6.9 Did Poincare Anticipate Godel? |
295 |
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7 Casting Out Nines |
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7.1 Feynman's Ants |
302 |
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7.2 The Dullness of 1729 |
313 |
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7.3 Casting Out Nines |
315 |
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7.4 Is Knowledge Cumulative? |
319 |
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7.5 Dialogue On Mathematical and Physical Knowledge |
321 |
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7.6 Death's Dual: Life Be Not Proud |
332 |
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7.7 White Ravens and Black Swans |
335 |
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8 Never See So Much |
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8.1 Electoral Draws |
340 |
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8.2 Bertelsen's Number |
343 |
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8.3 Reconstructing Brouwer |
345 |
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8.4 Lucretius on the Equivalence Principle |
353 |
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8.5 Accidental Melodies |
353 |
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8.6 Efficient and Final Causes |
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8.7 World's Oldest Man Dies |
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