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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 | |