WE ARE NOT THE FIRST: Riddles of Ancient Science. by TOMAS, ANDREW:

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,2nd reprint.[First published UK,Souvenir Press Ltd., 1971,reprinted July 1971 and then September,1971 - this edn - effectively a 3rd printing.] NFINE/VG.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour illustration+ b/w superimposed photograph illustrated front of dw/dj with white+yellow lettering,rear panel with other titles' adverts and reviews of same; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Some miniscule rubbing to corners,edges and head+foot of spine/backstrip and rear panel with several small abrasions removing top colour of orange and exposing white paper but only affecting text in a couple of examples.Top+fore-edges generally bright with some minimal thumbing/grubbing but fairly clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered with exception ot top two corners - minimally bumped - publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,and plain white eps, pastedowns with off-set shadowing from dw/dj's inner flaps.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-223pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illustrations lists/tables, an introduction,22 chapters and Conclusion,b/w maps,ilus+photographs within the text,a Rediscovery of Science page,a bibliography and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and a dedication. An uncommon and overlooked title in worldwide ancient scientific knowledge genre.
The development of modern science in the course of the past four hundred years is merely a rediscovery of old knowledge. Penicillin was known in ancient Egypt thousands of years before Fleming.The Australian aborigine has practised blood transfusion since prehistoric times,yet this method is new in Western medicine.
An ancient Hindu book,in two hundred and thirty stanzas,gives detailed instructions for the construction of aircraft,ages before the Wright Brothers.
Atomic theory was worked out by Democritus 2,500 years before Rutherford.We can no longer smile at the fossil science of alchemy because transmutation has become part of nuclear physics.The British Museum possesses a unique specimen of alchemical gold.
Robots and computers were a reality centuries before Norbert Weiner.The early inhabitants of England had used a computer in stone - Stonehenge - to forecast solar and lunar eclipses.
The map of Zeno of 1380 shows Greenland as it appeared thousands of years ago,without its ice sheet.On the Orontus Finaeus map dated 1531 the outline of Antarctica is clearly visible,yet the South Pole survey did not begin till the 19thC.
How did the ancient Babylonians know of the existence of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope?
In his well-constructed book Andrew Tomas proves his remarkable view of the antiquity of modern science with a most comprehensive mass of facts.No one can doubt that present day science is built on the scientific tradition of the philosophers of ancient Greece and the priests of Babylon and Egypt.But who were their teachers? The author theorises that an unknown civilization in Time or Space could have left a cultural legacy to the people of antiquity.
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