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Author Kaplan, Robert, 1933-

Title The nothing that is : a natural history of zero / Robert Kaplan ; illustrations by Ellen Kaplan.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  511.1 KAPLAN    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  511.2 KAPLAN, ROBERT    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  513 KAP    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  511.2 KAPLAN    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  511.2 KAPLAN    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  513 KAP    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  511.211 KAPLAN    Check Shelf
Description xii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Notes and bibliography available on the World Wide Web.
Contents 0. The lens -- 1. Mind puts its stamp on matter -- 2. The Greeks had no word for it -- 3. Travelers' tales -- 4. Eastward -- 5. Dust -- 6. Into the unknown -- 7. A paradigm shifts -- 8. A Mayan interlude : the dark side of counting -- 9. Much ado -- 10. Entertaining angels -- 11. Almost nothing -- 12. Is it out there? -- 13. Bath-house with spiders -- 14. A land where it was always afternoon -- ch. 15. Was Lear right? -- 16. The unthinkable.
Subject Zero (The number)
ISBN 0195128427 cloth alkaline paper
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