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Preface | p. vii |
Acknowledgements | p. ix |
Science, religion and myth: making sense of the world | p. 1 |
Life among the gods, part I: the Sumerians - service and supplication | p. 23 |
Life among the gods, part II: ancient Egyptians - optimism and opportunity | p. 55 |
The Presocratics: from myth to philosophical reason | p. 92 |
Classical philosophy: different roads to truth | p. 140 |
Early Christianity: the historical road to one God | p. 186 |
Medieval Christendom: faith and reason | p. 219 |
The triumphant rise of Western science: methodologies, mathematics and measurement | p. 257 |
The Big Bang: starlight to superstrings | p. 300 |
Origins of life: from molecules to machines | p. 315 |
Humankind's evolutionary origins and emergence of mind | p. 339 |
Tradition at the crossroads: seeking unity in diversity | p. 370 |
Notes | p. 375 |
Bibliography | p. 437 |
Index | p. 463 |
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