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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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	2000 Years of Space Travel by Russell Freedman from Holiday House for 7th-10th grade in History of Science & Mathematics (Location: SCI-HIS)
	Apollo on the Moon by Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr. from Dial Press for 6th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Audubon by Constance Rourke, illustrated by James MacDonald from Harcourt, Brace & World for 7th-12th grade 1937 Newbery Honor Book in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin World's Greatest Literature by Benjamin Franklin from Spencer Press for 9th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren from Library of America for 10th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci by Romola Anderson, R. C. Anderson 1^st edition from Henry Holt and Company for 9th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $19.99
	Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson from Boyds Mill Press for 7th-11th grade 2002 Newbery Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Honor Award in Biographies (Location: BIO) $16.95
	Chord of Steel The Story of the Invention of the Telephone by Thomas B. Costain from Doubleday & Company for 8th-Adult in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	David Douglas, A Naturalist at Work An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest by Jack Nisbet from Sasquatch Books for 10th-Adult in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
	Discovery Great Moments in the Lives of Outstanding Naturalists by John K. Terres First Ediition from J.B. Lippincott Co. for 9th-Adult in Biography Anthologies (Location: BIO-ANTH) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Encyclopedia of Science and Technology by James Trefil from Routledge for 7th-Adult in Science Reference (Location: SCIREF) $4.50 (1 in stock)
	Evolution of Useful Things How everyday artifacts - from forks and pins to paper clips and zippers - came to be as they are by Henry Petroski 1^st edition from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for 7th-Adult in Everyday Life in History (Location: HISV-EVERY)
	George Washington Carver: An American Biography by Rackham Holt from Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc. for 9th-12th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Great Inventions Geniuses and Gizmos: Innovation in Our Time from Time Inc. for 7th-10th grade in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Great Men of Science Their Lives and Discoveries by Grove Wilson 1942 Printing from New Home Library for 9th-Adult in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
	Great Scientists in Bite-Sized Chunks by Nicola Chalton and Meredith MacArdle from MJF Books for 6th-Adult in History of Science & Mathematics (Location: SCI-HIS) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	John James Audubon: Painting America's Wildlife by Janet Stevenson, illustrated by Robert Boehmer from Encyclopedia Britannica for 7th-10th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Life & Times of Leonardo by Liana Bortolon from Curtis Publishing Co. for 8th-12th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Longitude by Dava Sobel 1^st edition from Walker and Company for 10th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Longitude by Dava Sobel 1^st edition from Penguin Books for 10th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Louis Pasteur by Laura N. Wood 7th 1959 printing from Julian Messner for 7th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir from Gibbs M. Smith for 9th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $16.95
	Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall, illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff from Viking Press for 6th-10th grade 1941 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	One Giant Leap Iconic and Inspiring Space Race Inventions that Shaped History by Charles Pappas from Lyons Press for 9th-Adult in Space Race & Exploration (Location: HISA-20SPR) $13.00 (1 in stock)
	Pasteur and the Invisible Giants by Edward F. Dolan, Jr. from Dodd, Mead & Co. for 8th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	People, Places, Things, Ideas - 4 Volume Set from Hawthorn Books, Inc. for 9th-Adult in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC) $32.00 (1 in stock)
	Personal Life of David Livingstone Chiefly from His Unpublished Journals and Correspondence in the Possession of His Family Heroes of the Faith by W Garden Blaikie from Fleming H Revell Co. for 10th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Planets, The by Dava Sobel from Viking Press for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Runner of the Mountain Tops The Life of Louis Agassiz Junior Literary Guild by Mabel Louise Robinson, illustrated by Lynd Ward from Random House for 7th-10th grade 1940 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Space Shuttle: A Photographic History by Philip S. Harrington from Browntrout Publishers for 4th-10th grade in Clearance: Science & Health (Location: ZCLE-SCI)
	Story of Science - Set by Joy Hakim from Smithsonian Books for 7th-12th grade in History of Science & Mathematics (Location: SCI-HIS)
	Trailblazer of American Science The Life of Joseph Henry by Sarah R. Riedman Printing 'B' from Rand McNally for 7th-12th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Twelve Seconds to the Moon A Story of the Wright Brothers by Rosamond Young & Catharine Fitzgerald 2^nd edition from Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. for 7th-Adult in Aviation History (Location: HISV-AVIA) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Walter Reed: Vanquishing Yellow Fever by Edward F. Dolan, illustrated by Dan Siculan from Encyclopedia Britannica for 6th-10th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Way Things Work Now by David Macaulay & Neil Ardley 3^rd edition from Houghton Mifflin for 4th-10th grade in How Things Work (Location: SCIREF-HOW) $35.00
	Wheels: A Pictorial History from World Publishing Company for 7th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Women in Science 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky from Ten Speed Press for 4th-12th grade in History of Science & Mathematics (Location: SCI-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Wright Brothers by David McCullough First American Condition from Simon & Schuster Macmillan for 9th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $15.00 (2 in stock)

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