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Uncommon sense : understanding nature's truths across time and culture

Title: Uncommon sense : understanding nature's truths across time and culture / Anthony Aveni.
Author: Aveni, Anthony F.
Publication: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2006.

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Description

xviii, 250 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-242) and index.

Contents

I: Where we conflict -- What was that star? -- Where orbits came from and how the Greeks unstacked the deck -- Why you can't have a big bang without Darwin--and vice versa -- When disciplines collide : from dinosaurs to the dogon -- II: What we share -- What's in a number? -- Time, the city, and a King's dilemma -- Space : are maps really territory? -- Lists : does everybody do science? -- Symbols : the natural history of a [pecked cross] -- Last Words.

Call Number

JBE 06-1127

ISBN

0870818287 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005037323
9780870818288

OCLC

62742588

Author

Aveni, Anthony F.

Title

Uncommon sense : understanding nature's truths across time and culture / Anthony Aveni.

Imprint

Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-242) and index.

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Other Standard Identifier

9780870818288

Research Call Number

JBE 06-1127

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