The story of science is the story of people--some reallyinteresting people--who continuously question the world aroundthem. In the first book of her three part Story of Science JoyHakim invites readers of all ages to meet the forebearers of modernscience and share in their exciting discoveries in astronomy, math,and physics. She begins with the fascinating story of thegroundbreaking thinkers of ancient Greece, including Thales,Pythagoras, Archimedes, and especially Aristotle, perhaps thegreatest thinker of all time. She writes about Ptolemy, onceconsidered the most reliable astronomer in the world, and howduring the Dark Ages, Arab and Chinese thinkers preserved andadvanced the achievements of the ancients. Hakim's clear and livelywriting about such important medieval thinkers as Thomas Aquinasand Roger Bacon draws Book One to a close with the bold science andscientists of the Renaissance, who rebelled against the strictreligious controls that had been imposed for centuries onscientific inquiry.
