"Lost Discoveries, Dick Teresi's innovative history of science, explores the unheralded scientific breakthroughs from peoples of the ancient world - Babylonians, Egyptians, Indians, Africans, New World and Oceanic tribes, among others - and the non-European medieval world. They left an enormous heritage in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, physics, geology, chemistry, and technology."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved