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ON the SHOULDERS OF OTHERS: How Every Civilisation Handed Next One Its Unfinished Work

Name: ON the SHOULDERS OF OTHERS: How Every Civilisation Handed Next One Its Unfinished Work
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Bol Nobody is the father of anything.Babylon wrote the sky down for seven centuries and could not explain it. Greece explained it and could not make the mathematics general. Ibn al-Haytham took Ptolemy apart, proved the Moon was not a mirror, and left the question of what replaces Ptolemy to Maragha. Kepler found the ellipse and asked what force holds it. Newton answered - and admitted he could not say what gravity was. Einstein answered that, and left us black holes we cannot reconcile with quantum theory.This is the story of a relay that has been running for five thousand years, told through four ideas: light, the heavens, the infinite, and number. Every chapter ends with the problem its civilisation could not solve - and the next one begins with someone picking it up.The last chapter is the problem we are handing forward.

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Nobody is the father of anything.Babylon wrote the sky down for seven centuries and could not explain it. Greece explained it and could not make the mathematics general. Ibn al-Haytham took Ptolemy apart, proved the Moon was not a mirror, and left the question of what replaces Ptolemy to Maragha. Kepler found the ellipse and asked what force holds it. Newton answered - and admitted he could not say what gravity was. Einstein answered that, and left us black holes we cannot reconcile with quantum theory.This is the story of a relay that has been running for five thousand years, told through four ideas: light, the heavens, the infinite, and number. Every chapter ends with the problem its civilisation could not solve - and the next one begins with someone picking it up.The last chapter is the problem we are handing forward.

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