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The Grand Contraption : The World As Myth, Number, and Chance
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The Grand Contraption : The World As Myth, Number, and Chance Hardcover - 2005

by Park, David

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  • Title The Grand Contraption : The World As Myth, Number, and Chance
  • Author Park, David
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 331
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
  • Date 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 754076-75
  • ISBN 9780691121338 / 0691121338
  • Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6 x 0.99 in (23.50 x 15.24 x 2.51 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Science - History, Science and civilization
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004022624
  • Dewey Decimal Code 509

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From the publisher

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-325) and index.

First line

IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA or in the valley of the Nile, you could look around at a landscape interrupted only by a farmhouse or a town or a temple and imagine that the world continued like that.

About the author

David Park is Webster Atwell-Class of 1921 Professor of Physics, Emeritus at Williams College. He is the author of seven previous books, including The Fire within the Eye, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997, and The How and the Why (both Princeton).