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Science is a body of empirical, theoretical, and practical knowledge about the natural world, produced by a global community of researchers making use of scientific methods, which emphasize the observation, experimentation and explanation of real world phenomena. Given the dual status of science as objective knowledge and as a human construct, good historiography of science draws on the historical methods of both intellectual history and social history. While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since antiquity, and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages, the dawn of modern science is generally traced back to the early modern period, during what is known as the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries. Scientific methods are considered to be so fundamental to modern science that some—especially philosophers of science and practicing scientists—consider earlier inquiries into nature to be pre-scientific. Traditionally, historians of science have defined science sufficiently broadly to include those inquiries.

The area of study known as the history of mathematics is primarily an investigation into the origin of new discoveries in mathematics. To a lesser extent it isan investigation into the standard mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments have come to light only in a few locales. All of these texts concern the so-called Pythagorean theorem, which seems to be the most ancient and widespread mathematical development after basic arithmetic and geometry. One striking feature of the history of ancient and medieval mathematics is that bursts of mathematical development were often followed by centuries of stagnation. Beginning in Renaissance Italy in the 16th century, new mathematical developments, interacting with new scientific discoveries, were made at an ever increasing pace, and this continues to the present day.

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	All About Famous Inventors and Their Inventions All About Books #18 by Fletcher Pratt from Random House for 3rd-6th grade in All About Books (Location: VIN-ALL)
	Angel of Mercy The Story of Dorothea Lynde Dix by Rachel Baker from Julian Messner for 3rd-7th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, and Patriot by R. Conrad Stein from Rand McNally Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $3.00 (2 in stock)
	DK Super Cool Tech from DK Publishing for 3rd-6th grade in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Doctor Like Papa by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, Illustrated by James Bernardin First Edition from HarperCollins for 2nd-5th grade in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Eye Wonder: Invention by Caroline Bingham from DK Publishing for 2nd-6th grade in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
	George Washington Carver: America's Scientist Heroes of History for Young Readers by Renee Taft Meloche from Emerald Books for 1st-4th grade in Heroes for Young Readers (Location: BIO-HERO)
	Girl Who Drew Butterflies How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science by Joyce Sidman from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for 3rd-8th grade 2019 Robert F. Sibert Medal winner in Biographies (Location: BIO) $17.99
	Go Figure! A Totally Cool Book About Numbers by Johnny Ball from DK Publishing for 3rd-6th grade in History of Science & Mathematics (Location: SCI-HIS) $4.50 (1 in stock)
	History News: Medicine by Philip Gates from Candlewick Press for 3rd-7th grade in History of Medicine (Location: SCI-HIS)
	How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning by Rosalyn Schanzer from HarperCollins for 2nd-4th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	John Audubon, Boy Naturalist by Miriam E. Mason from Bobbs-Merril Co for 3rd-7th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Journey to Freedom by Charles W. Carey Jr. from Child's World for 2nd-4th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Leonardo da Vinci What Made Them Great by Norman V. Marshall from Silver Burdett Press for 2nd-5th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky from Little, Brown & Company Biography for 2nd-5th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $18.99 $12.00 (2 in stock)
	Luther Burbank: Nature's Helper Makers of America by Lillian J. Bragdon, illustrated by Frederick T. Chapman from Abingdon Press for 3rd-5th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Man Who Made Time Travel by Kathryn Lasky First Edition from Farrar, Straus and Giroux for 3rd-5th grade 2004 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Mathematics: The Story of Numbers, Symbols and Space Golden Library of Knowledge by Irving Adler, illustrated by Lowell Hess from Golden Press for 2nd-6th grade in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
	Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison by David A. Adler, illustrated by John & Alexandra Wallner from Holiday House Picture Book Biography for 1st-3rd grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Prophet With Honor Dr. William Henry Welch by William Henry Welch from Julian Messner Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Rachel Carson Biologist and Writer by Melissa Stewart from Ferguson Publishing Company for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin from Houghton Mifflin Biographies of Scientists and Inventors for 1st-3rd grade 1999 Caldecott Medal winner in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $17.99
	Steam Engine Inventions That Changed Our Lives by Beatrice Siegel from Walker and Company for 3rd-6th grade in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of Jonas Salk by Jim Hargrove from Children's Press for 3rd-4th grade in Cornerstones of Freedom (Location: VIN-CORN)
	Story of Louisa May Alcott Grosset & Dunlap Signature #35 by Joan Howard, illustrated by Flora Smith from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 3rd-8th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Science by Anna Claybourne, illustrated by Adam Larkum from Usborne for 3rd-6th grade in History of Science & Mathematics (Location: SCI-HIS) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Universe of Galileo and Newton from Horizon Books for 3rd-8th grade in Horizon Caravel Books (Location: VIN-HOR)
	Usborne History of Science in 100 Pictures by Abigail Wheatley, illustrated by Ian McNee from Usborne for 2nd-5th grade in History of Science & Mathematics (Location: SCI-HIS) $5.40 (1 in stock)
	What's Inside? Great Inventions What's Inside? from DK Publishing for 1st-3rd grade in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV) $3.50 (1 in stock)
	Who Invented This? Smart People and Their Bright Ideas by Anne Ameri-Siemens, illustrated by Becky Thorns, translated by David Henry Wilson from Little Gestalten for 2nd-5th grade in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Wonderful World of Mathematics by Lancelot Hogben from Doubleday & Company for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI) $46.00 (1 in stock)
	Young Audubon by Miriam E. Mason from Bobbs-Merril Co for 2nd-5th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)

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