Overview / 简介: |
| Discusses the achievements of the ancient Egyptians in science, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, agriculture, and technology. |
From Organization / 国外机构评价: |
| Grade 5-8 The accomplishments of ancient Egyptians in architecture, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and agriculture are presented in a clear and concise manner. A concluding chapter summarizes the more visible parts of modern everyday life which owe their beginnings to Egypt. For example, the Egyptians were the first to design locks with a notched key matching pegs within the lock and were responsible for our sun-based calendar. Woods is careful to point out where our knowledge of Egyptian technology is incomplete, such as techniques used for shaping stones, and he describes several probable alternative methods. The paucity of illustrations is a weakness. Those that have been included are often incomplete or fail to deal with the processes being described. Still, this is a good general introduction, which should be followed up by books that focus on specific aspects of Egyptian civilization, such as Mildred Pace's Wrapped for Eternity (McGraw, 1974; o.p.) and David Macaulay's Pyramid (Houghton, 1975). David N. Pauli, Northern Waters Library Service, Ashland, Wis.
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Foreign Customer Review / 国外客户评价: |
| Rating: four and half stars.
There were many interesting topics in the book but I felt it was overall a little short. I used it as a read aloud for my children during our Egypt unit study. We were amazed at how the Egyptians multiplied and divided numbers. We tried it and it really worked! Many interesting things we did not know before. I do recommend the book, but because of it's short length I did not give it 5 stars. Fascinating read.
Chapters include: Geography & science; The Pyrmids; Mathematics; Adtronomy and Timekeeping; Medicine |
About the Author / 作者介绍: |
| Geraldine Woods has taught and tutored every level of English from 5th grade through AP for nearly four decades. She's the author of more than 40 books, including numerous books published by Wiley: English Grammar For Dummies, English Grammar Workbook For Dummies, Research Papers For Dummies, College Admissions Essays For Dummies, SAT I For Dummies, AP English Literature and Composition For Dummies, AP English Language and Composition For Dummies, and Punctuation: Simplified and Applied. She loves her family, the Yankees, New York City, and Chinese food. |
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