Blacks and Science Volume Two West and East African Contributions to Science and Technology and Intellectual Life and Legacy of Timbuktu

Name: Blacks and Science Volume Two West and East African Contributions to Science and Technology and Intellectual Life and Legacy of Timbuktu
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ISBN: 9781492996231

ISBN-10: 1492996238

ISBN-13: 9781492996231

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robin Walker

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Blacks and Science Volume Two Did YOU know any of the following facts? o The Bamoun Kingdom, now in today's Cameroon, has 7,000 surviving manuscripts in their own script o Timbuktu astronomers used the cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant and cosecant functions of trigonometry o The Dogon of Mali had an early and wholly indigenous notion of 'big bang' derived from a singularity o A number of iron and copper tools were excavated in Senegal that dated from 2800 BC o The total amount of gold mined in the desert regions of West Africa to the year 1500 was $35 billion at 1998 gold prices o A surviving sixteenth century Timbuktu manuscript has a formula for making toothpaste and adds that regular…

Book details

List price: $13.50
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date: 10/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 150
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English