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The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way


By: Joy Hakim
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Type of Product:NSTA Press Book
Publication Title:The Story of Science
Publication Date:1/1/2004
Pages:282
Stock Number:PA008X1
ISBN:978-1-58834-160-2
Grade Level:Elementary School, Middle School, High School
Read Inside:For more information on this Story of Science volume, please visit the author’s website.


Description

The Story of Science is the story of people—some really interesting people—who continuously questioned the world around them. In the first book of her six-part Story of Science Joy Hakim invites readers of all ages to meet the forbearers of modern science and share in their exciting discoveries in astronomy, math, and physics. She begins with the fascinating story of the groundbreaking thinkers of ancient Greece, including Thales, Pythagoras, Archimedes, and especially Aristotle, perhaps the greatest thinker of all time. She writes about Ptolemy, once considered the most reliable astronomer in the world, and how during the Dark Ages, Arab and Chinese thinkers preserved and advanced the achievements of the ancients. The author's clear and lively writing about such important medieval thinkers as Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon draws Book One to a close with the bold science and scientists of the Renaissance, who rebelled against the strict religious controls that had been imposed for centuries on scientific inquiry.


Ideas For Use

The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way uses a gripping narrative style to tell of the centuries-long quest to answer an important question: What is this universe of ours all about? In between the narratives, you and your students can browse colorful sidebars, test hands-on experiments, examine chars, maps, and diagrams and enjoy the humor of author Joy Hakim.

Additional Info

Intended User Role:Elementary-Level Educator, High-School Educator, Middle-Level Educator
Educational Issues:Interdisciplinary

Contents

A Writer’s Reason
There’s more to This Story
1. Birthing a Universe
2. Telling It Like they Thought It Was: Myths of Creation
3. Making Days: Were the Calendar Makers Lunatics or Just Moonstruck
• Why Does The Moon Dazzle, Then Disappear?
• Take A Number, Then Write It Down
4. Ionia? What’s Ionia?
• Measuring With the Mind
5. The “A” Team
• More on Numerals, Geometry, and Math’s Origins
6. Elementary Matters: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, Says Empedocles
7. Being at Sea
• Why Do Polestars Take Turns?
8. Worshiping Numbers
• Chewing on Pi—or Tasting One of Math’s Mysteries
9. Pythagoras Know It’s Round
• There’s Gold in Those Irrationals
10. Getting Atom
• Ode to An Atom
11. Aristotle and His Teacher
• Plato, Math, and Perfect Numbers
12. Does it Change? No way, Says A
• Why Mars Is a Little Loopy
13. Aristarchus Got it Right—Well, Almost!
• How Far the Moon? It’s About Time
14. Alexander’s City
• Smoke and Mirrors
15. What’s a Hero
• Hero, An Airhead
16. Euclid in His Elements
• Numbers: In their Prime
17. Archimedes’ Claw
• Is It a Claw or a Flaw?
18. Measuring the Earth
• How did Eratosthenes Come So Close?
19. Rome Rules
20. Longitude and Latitude plus Two Greek Mapmakers
• What’s the Point?
21. The Greatest
22. A Saint Who Was No Scientist
• Do You Believe the Polyhistor? Well, Lost of People Did
23. No Joke—the Earth Is Pancake Flat!
24. Don’t Worry—the Round Earth Is Back!
25. Absolute Zero
• Mr. Fibonacci’s Numbers
26. An “Ox” Who Bellowed
• Roger Bacon Predicts
27. Books Will do it
28. The Antipodes: Discovering Down Under
29. Cosmic Voyagers: Is It Fiction, or Could It be True?
30. Finally! How Science Works
• The Prime Number Sieve of Eratosthenes
Suggested Reading
NSTA Recommends
Picture Credits
Permissions
Index


This Title Also Available as Part of a Set:
Set: The Story of Science
In the three-book The Story of Science series, master storyteller Joy Hakim traces the evolution of scientific thought from ancient times to the present. With lively, character-driven narrative, Hakim highlights the curiosity of the world’s greatest scientists and encourages a similar spirit of inquiry in readers. This specially priced set includes the three books—Aristotle Leads the Way, Newton at the Center, and Einstein Adds a New Dimension —as well as the Classroom Companion e-Book for Einstein and sample teaching materials for Aristotle and Newton.
Member Price: $40.41 Nonmember Price: $62.95

Book Series
View other books in the The Story of Science.
The Story of Science: Newton at the Center
The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension

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