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Mathematics: An Illustrated History of Numbers (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Ponderables
Legend has it that the first magic square, where all lines and diagonals add up to the same figure, was revealed more than 2,000 years ago when a river turtle appeared to have ancient Chinese numerals inscribed on sections of its shell. Patterns are everywhere in nature, and counting, measuring, and cal ...Show more
Physics: An Illustrated History of the Foundations of Science (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
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Category: Non-fiction | Series: Ponderables
Our journey begins with the first attempts to understand reality, Mother Nature - or as the ancient Greeks called it, physis. Follow the journey through history as great scientists, such as Thales, Galileo, Feynman, and many others, gradually unpick the fabric of the Universe revealing an array of funda ...Show more
The Elements: An Illustrated History of the Periodic Table (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
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Category: Non-Fiction General | Series: Ponderables
In 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presented the world with the Periodic Table. It contained 63 elements, many more than the four elements established in the ancient world, but less than half the total in our modern table. Mendeleev believed there were many elements still to come. He was right. This gloriously il ...Show more
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