Blacks and Science Volume Two: West and East African Contributions to Science and Technology AND Intellectual Life and Legacy of Timbuktu AUTH-5477984 Tom Peters

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Blacks and Science Volume Two: West and East African Contributions to Science and Technology AND Intellectual Life and Legacy of Timbuktu AUTH-5477984 Tom PetersBlacks and Science Volume Two Did YOU know any of the following facts? o The Bamoun Kingdom, now in today's Cameroon, has 7,000 surviving manuscripts in their own script o Timbuktu astronomers used the cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant and cosecant functions of trigonometry o The Dogon of Mali had an early and wholly indigenous notion of 'big bang' derived from a singularity o A number of iron and copper tools were excavated in Senegal that dated