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| A Writer's Reasons | |
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| There's More to This Story | |
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| Birthing a Universe | |
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| Telling It Like They Thought It Was: Myths of Creation | |
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| Making Days: Were the Calendar Makers Lunatics or Just Moonstruck? | |
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| Why Does the Moon Dazzle, Then Disappear? | |
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| Take a Number, Then Write It Down | |
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| Ionia? What's Ionia? | |
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| Measuring with the Mind | |
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| The "A" Team | |
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| More on Numerals, Geometry, and Math's Origins | |
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| Elementary Matters: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, Says Empedocles | |
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| Being at Sea | |
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| Why Do Polestars Take Turns? | |
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| Worshiping Numbers | |
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| Chewing on Pi-or Tasting One of Math's Mysteries | |
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| Pythagoras Knows It's Round | |
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| There's Gold in Those Irrationals | |
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| Getting Atom | |
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| Ode to an Atom | |
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| Aristotle and His Teacher | |
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| Plato, Math, and Perfect Numbers | |
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| Does It Change? No Way, Says A | |
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| Why Mars Is a Little Loopy | |
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| Aristarchus Got It Right-Well, Almost! | |
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| How Far the Moon? It's About Time | |
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| Alexander's City | |
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| Smoke and Mirrors | |
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| What's a Hero? | |
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| Hero, an Airhead? | |
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| Euclid in His Elements | |
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| Numbers: In Their Prime | |
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| Archimedes' Claw | |
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| Is It a Claw or a Flaw? | |
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| Measuring the Earth | |
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| How Did Eratosthenes Come So Close? | |
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| Rome Rules | |
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| Longitude and Latitude plus Two Greek Mapmakers | |
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| What's the Point? | |
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| The Greatest | |
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| A Saint Who Was No Scientist | |
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| Do You Believe the Polyhistor? Well, Lots of People Did | |
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| No Joke-the Earth Is Pancake Flat! | |
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| Don't Worry-the Round Earth Is Back! | |
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| Absolute Zero | |
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| Mr. Fibonacci's Numbers | |
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| An "Ox" Who Bellowed | |
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| Roger Bacon Predicts | |
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| Books Will Do It | |
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| The Antipodes: Discovering Down Under | |
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| Cosmic Voyagers: Is It Fiction, or Could It Be True? | |
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| Finally! How Science Works | |
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| The Prime Number Sieve of Eratosthenes | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| NSTA Recommends | |
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| Picture Credits | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Index | |