INDEX
A
Abbott, Edwin 178
abjads 26
Accademia dei Lincei 168
Al-Ashr Makalat Fi’l’ayn 62, 63, 64
Al-kitāb al-mukhtasar fī ḥisāb al-gabr wa’l-muqābala 8, 9, 60, 67
Algebra 98
Algoritmi de numero Indorum 61
alphabets 26
al-Qānūn fī al-Ṭibb see Canon of Medicine
Animals in Motion 185
Aristarchus of Samos 9
Aristotle 37, 38, 54, 62, 76, 86, 103, 116, 118, 123
Arithmetica 61
Ars Magna 98
Ascent of Man, The 161, 228, 240
Astronomicum Caesareum 92, 93, 94
astronomy 39, 54, 86, 90, 100, 114, 153, 169
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry 242, 243
Ätiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers, Die 172
Atkins, Peter 252
atomic weights 146
atoms 39, 41, 121, 142, 144, 146
Attenborough, David 240
Audubon, John James 147
Autobiography of Charles Darwin, The 168
Avicenna 62
B
Bacon, Francis 99, 100, 103, 168
Bacon, Roger 16, 70, 80, 86, 98
Becquerel, Henri 194
Berzelius, Jöns Jacob 147
Big Bang theory 55
biology 161, 178, 194, 204, 219, 229, 250
Birds of America 147
Bohm, David 232
Bombelli, Rafael 98
Book of Alchemy, The 35
books 10
binding 19
Brahe, Tycho 103
Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta 60
Brief History of Infinity, A 250
Brief History of Time, A 18, 199, 228, 237, 246
Bronowski, Jacob 161, 218, 228, 240
Brown Blackwell, Antoinette 190
Brunner, John 223
C
Carnot, Sadi 152
Carroll, Sean 246
Carson, Rachel 208
Challenger Space Shuttle 215
Chambers, Robert 164
Chaos 235
Chemical History of the Candle, The 174, 175
chemistry 121, 133, 174, 201, 249
Clegg, Brian 250
Complete Herbal 111
compounds 122, 136, 142, 146, 147
Conjuring the Universe 253
continental drift theory 187, 188
Copenhagen interpretation 232
Copernicus, Nicolaus 86, 90, 99, 100, 116
Culpeper, Nicolas 111
D
Darwin, Charles 137, 155, 164, 165, 190, 255
Davy, Humphry 142
Dawkins, Richard 221, 224, 227, 228
De Humani Corporis Fabrica 108
De Mirabile Protestate Artis et Naturae 80
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium 77, 86, 90
Democritus 41
Descartes, René 119
Description de L’Univers 91, 93
Dialogo Sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo 116
Diamond Sutra, The 12
Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche Intorno a Due Nuove Scienze 117
Discours de la Méthode 191
Double Helix, The 204, 218, 219, 235
Du Châtelet, Émilie 16, 17, 128
E
Edwin Smith Papyrus 31
Einstein, Albert 142, 178, 198, 233, 249
Eleatic School 38
electromagnetism 176
elements 133, 136, 145, 146, 147
Encounters with Einstein 204
English Physitian, The 111
Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane, Die 187, 188
environmentalism 208, 223, 227
Epicurus 50
Er Redete mit dem Viehden Vogeln und den Fischen 206
Essay on the Principle of Population, An 138
ethology 206
evolution 137, 161, 162, 164, 215, 217, 221, 224
Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis 111
Experimenta Nova 123
F
Fabre, Jean-Henri 182
Faraday, Michael 142, 174, 175
Fermat’s Last Theorem 241, 243, 250
Feynman Lectures on Physics, The 214, 215
Feynman, Richard 178, 213, 232, 233
Firestein, Stuart 256
Flatland 178
Franklin, Rosalind 220
From Eternity to Here 246
Future Shock 222
G
Galileo Galilei 16, 39, 114, 243
Garnett, William 191
gender issues 59, 136, 190, 254
see also women in science
genetics 164, 168, 194, 221, 224
Géométrie, La 119
geometry 8, 30, 41, 119, 126, 127, 186
Gilbert, William 103, 107, 108
Gleick, James 235
Gödel, Escher, Bach 228, 229, 233
Gödel, Kurt 188
Goeppert-Mayer, Maria 191
gravity 103, 117, 126, 128, 194, 249
Gray, Henry 172
Gribbin, John 233
Grundlagen der Geometrie 186
Guericke, Otto von 122
Guild Book of the Barber Surgeons of York, The 34
H
Haeckel, Ernst 178
Harmonices Mundi 103
Harrison, John 243
Harvey, William 111
Hasard et la Nécessité, Le 221, 222
Hawking, Stephen 18, 199, 228, 237, 246
Heat: a mode of motion 176
Hebb, Donald 205
herbal medicine 111
Hilbert, David 186
Hippocrates et al 32, 36, 50, 62
Hirschhausen, Eckart von 249
History of Animals 41
Hofstadter, Douglas R. 228, 229
Hogben, Lancelot 200
Hooke, Robert 122, 123, 124, 126, 147
Hossenfelder, Sabine 256
Human Figure in Motion, The 185
Humboldt, Alexander von 157, 161
Hunter, Henry 136
Huxley, Thomas 167
Huygens, Christiaan 128
Hypatia 59
I
ibn Sinā 62
ideograms 26
Ignorance 256
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The 250
In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat 233
Inferior 254
Infinite Jest 228
Institutions de Physique 17
Invention of Science, The 76
Investigation of the Laws of Thought, An 170, 171
J
Jurassic Park 237
K
Kennard, Caroline 190
Kepler, Johannes 100
King Solomon’s Ring 206
Kitāb al-Manā
ir 62
itsur Toldot Ha-enoshut 252, 253
Kunstformen der Natur 178
Lacks, Henrietta 250
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste 137, 162, 164, 165
language 16, 27, 90, 117, 126, 128, 252
Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopaedia 153
Large Hadron Collider 256
Läroboken i Kemien 147
Last Days of Smallpox, The 252
Latin see language
Lavoisier, Antoine 133, 134, 142, 147
Leber wächst mit ihren Aufgaben, Die 249
Leonardo da Vinci 46, 62, 80, 108
Leroi, Armand 234
Lettres à une Princesse d’Allemagne 135, 136
Leucippus 41
Lewis, Jeremy 249
Liber de Ludo Aleae 98
Library of Alexandria 36
Linné, Carl von (Linnaeus) 128
Logik der Forschung 207
loop quantum gravity 249
Lorenz, Konrad 206
Lost in Math 256
Lovelace, Ada 150
Lucretius Carus, Titus 50, 138
Lunar Society of Birmingham 137
Luther, Martin 87
Lyell, Charles 17, 154, 166, 168
M
magnetism 103
Malthus, Thomas 138
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The 234
Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behaviour 217
mathematics 58, 66, 96, 98, 126, 170, 186, 188, 200, 228, 237, 253, 256
Mathematics for the Million 200
Maxwell, James Clerk 17, 168, 176, 190, 204
medicine 31, 32, 50, 54, 62, 111, 172, 211, 250
memes 224
Mendel, Gregor 168
Mizan al-Hikmah 62
Morris, Desmond 215
Münster, Sebastian 88, 90, 93, 117
music of the spheres 103
Mutants 234
Mysterium Cosmographicum 100, 101
N
Naked Ape, The 215
natural history 128
Naturalis Historia 50
Nature of the Chemical Bond, The 201, 205
Nature of the Physical World, The 199, 200
New System of Chemical Philosophy, A 144, 146
New Experiments Physico-Mechanical 121
Newton, Isaac 6, 16, 17, 41, 120, 122, 126, 194
Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art 58, 59
Noether, Emmy 253
Not Even Wrong 246
Notebooks 80
Notes of the Jade Hall 14
Novum Organum Scientiarum 99
numbers 8
O
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacture 150, 152
On the Origin of Species 165
Opticks 126
Opus Majus 70
Organization of Behavior, The 205
Outline of History, The 201
Owen, Richard 166
P
Pallen, Mark 252
paradigm shifts 208
particle physics 256
Pepys, Samuel 122
Philosophie Zoologique 164
phlogiston theory 133
Physics 38
physics 117, 152, 194, 213, 229, 246, 253, 256
see also quantum physics
Pliny 50
Popper, Karl 207
Powell, Baden 169
Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, A 153
Principia Mathematica 16, 17, 126, 186, 188
printing press 12, 14, 15, 108
Public Attitudes to Chemistry 250
Pythagoras 30, 32, 45, 58, 66, 67
Q
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter 213, 215, 233
quantum physics 194, 198, 204, 213, 232, 247, 249
Quantum Universe, The 243
R
radioactivity 194
Rats, Lice and History 211
Reagan, Ronald 257
recapitulation theory 178
Réflexions sur la Puissance Motrice du Feu 152
Rosalind Franklin and DNA 220
Rovelli, Carlo 247
Royal Institution 142, 143, 174, 176, 183
Royal Society 17, 99, 122, 126, 128, 168, 170, 185, 257
Russell, Bertrand 186, 188, 201, 240
S
Sacks, Oliver 234
Sagan, Carl 240
Saini, Angela 254
Sayre, Anne 220
Sceptical Chymist, The 120
Schrödinger, Erwin 204, 205, 219
scientific journals 17, 168, 170, 186, 256
scientific papers 16, 21, 168, 186, 252
Selfish Gene, The 221, 224, 225
Semmelweis, Ignaz 172
Sette Brevi Lezioni di Fisica 247
Sexes Throughout Nature, The 190
Shape of Things to Come, The 222
Shockwave Rider 223
Short History of Nearly Everything, A 237, 245, 246
Sidereus Nuncius 114, 115, 116
Silent Spring 208
Six Lectures on Light 176
Skloot, Rebecca 250
smallpox 252
Smolin, Lee 246, 247, 249, 256
Sound: delivered in eight lectures 175, 176
Souvenirs Entomologiques 182
statistics 138, 176, 200, 201, 222
Strickland, Donna 191
string theory 246, 247, 249, 256
Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The 207, 208
Studies in General Science 190
superposition 234
Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman! 213
Symbolic Logic 170
T
Tartaglia, Niccolò 98
tectonic plate theory 187, 188
telescope 116
television series 215, 218, 240, 243
Third Man of the Double Helix, The 220
Thurneisser, Leonhard 35
Toffler, Alvin 223
Traité de Radioactivité 194
Traité Élémentaire de Chimie 133, 134
Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism 176
Trouble with Physics, The 246, 247
typhus 211
U
Über die Spezielle und die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Gemeinverständlich 198
uniformitarianism 154, 155, 161
Unweaving the Rainbow 224, 227
V
Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden 168
Vesalius, Andreas 108
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation 164
W
Wallace, Alfred Russell 166, 167
Wallace, David Foster 228
Whitehead, Alfred North 186, 188
Wholeness and the Implicate Order 232
Wilberforce, Samuel 167
Woit, Peter 246
women in science 59, 136, 190, 220, 229
see also gender issues
Wooton, David 76
Z
Zinsser, Hans 211
Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life 137