TABLE OF CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



PAffiB 



EARLY CIVILIZATIONS 1 



The Antiquity and Ancestry of Man Archaeology Prehis- 

 toric Man The Science of Mankind, Anthropology Primi- 

 tive Interpretations of Nature Prevalence of Animism in 

 Antiquity Sources of Information Concerning Prehistoric and 

 Ancient Times Some Ancient Lands and Peoples Babylo- 

 nia and Assyria Egypt Phoenicia The Hebrews The 

 Emergence of European Civilization ^Egean Civilization in 

 the Bronze Age The Iron Age ; The Greeks or Hellenes. 



CHAPTER II 



EARLY MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE IN BABYLONIA AND EGYPT . . 20 



Primitive Astronomical Notions -The Planets Astrology 

 and Cosmology Primitive Counting Primitive Geometry 

 Relation of Greek to Older Civilizations Babylonian Arith- 

 metic Babylonian Astronomy - - Babylonian Geometry 

 Mathematical Science in Egypt The Ahmes Papyrus Egyp- 

 tian Land Measurement Egyptian Geometry. 



CHAPTER III 



THE BEGINNINGS OF SCIENCE 35 



Geographical Boundaries Indebtedness of Greece to Baby- 

 lonia and Egypt The Greek Point of View Sources The 

 Calendar Time Measurement Greek Arithmetic Greek 

 Geometry The Ionian Philosophers Thales Milesian Cos- 

 mology Anaximander Anaximenes Pythagoras and his 

 School Pythagorean Arithmetic Pythagorean Geometry 

 Pythagorean Physical Science Terrestrial Motion : Philolaus, 

 Hieetas. 



CHAPTER IV 



SCIENCE IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF GREECE 58 



Literature and Art Parmenides Empedocles Anaxagoras 

 The Atomists Democritus of Abdera The Beginnings of 



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