Dick Teresi is the author or coauthor of several books about science and technology, including The God Particle. He is cofounder of Omni magazine and has written for Discover, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic Monthly, and is a frequent reviewer and essayist for The New York Times Book Review. He lives in Amherst, Massachusett
Dava Sobel Author of Galileo's Daughter and Longitude If you think,
as I did, that science flowered in ancient Greece -- the way Athena
sprang fully formed from the brow of Zeus -- then read Dick
Teresi's Lost Discoveries and revel in the global expression of
early genius, from Sumerian mathematics and ancient Indian particle
physics to the sky maps of the Skidi Pawnee and the rubber
'factories' of the Aztecs.
Leon Lederman Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and coauthor of
The God Particle Wow, Teresi's Lost Discoveries is a romp through
the history of mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, physics, geology,
chemistry, and technology. Teresi must have pored through tons of
ancient manuscripts and scholarly compendia to unearth a rich mine
of historical achievements of largely non-Western civilizations
that preceded and enabled the Golden Age of Greece. For science
buffs who are curious about 'How do we know?' and 'How did we
learn?' this is a spectacular canvas, and it illuminates the power
of cultural diversity. Yes, there were peaks in the progress of
science, but today science is the only universal culture, the same
in the West, East, North, and South. Teresi's important book helps
to explain why.
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