How Long to Read The Book of Wonders

How Long Does it Take to Read The Book of Wonders?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read The Book of Wonders by Benjamin Wardhaugh

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the world's first textbook - shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths. Thirteen volumes of mathematical definitions, propositions and proofs. Writing in 300 BC, Euclid could not have known his logic would go unsurpassed until the nineteenth century, or that his writings were laying down the very foundations of human knowledge. Wardhaugh blasts the dust from Euclid's legacy to offer not only a vibrant history of mathematics, told through people and invention, but also a broader story of culture. Telling stories from every continent, ranging between Ptolemy and Isaac Newton, Hobbes and Lewis Carrol, this is a history that dives from Ancient Greece to medieval Byzantium, early modern China, Renaissance Italy, the age of European empires, and our world today. How has geometry sat at the beating heart of sculpture, literature, music and thought? How can one unknowable figure of antiquity live through two millennia?

How long is The Book of Wonders?

The Book of Wonders by Benjamin Wardhaugh is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.

This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Book of Wonders Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read The Book of Wonders aloud.

What Reading Level is The Book of Wonders?

The Book of Wonders is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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