List of illustrations
1
Raphael ‘School of Athens’
Public domain.
2
Geometrical foundations of the world
Adapted from Cornford,
Plato’s cosmology
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, nd), pp. 230–9.
3
Ptolemaic bric-a-brac
4
Sabbath machinery
© Photo Researchers / Mary Evans Picture Library.
5
A lecture in a house of wisdom
© Photo Josse / Scala, Florence.
6
Astral history
7
Computer in brass
Public domain.
8
Size of the Earth
9
The magnificent Elephant Clock
Public domain.
10
Stoned students
Gianni Dagli Orti / REX / Shutterstock.
11
Motion pictured
12
Heliocentric advantages
13
Applied physics around 1550
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Savile P. 6, p.145.
14
Royal Academicians
© Photo Josse / Scala, Florence.
15
The Earth—Moon eddy in the solar vortex
© Digitaal Labo KU Leuven (Central Library, ms. 211, f. 280r).
16
Diversion from politics
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. E.4.6Art_Page109.
17
Planetary motion geometrized
18
Newtonian tides
19
Fashionable lecturing around 1750
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Rigaud f. 68, frontispiece.
20
A physics institute around 1900
AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives, Brittle Books Collection.
21
Desktop physics
© Photo Researchers / Mary Evans Picture Library.
22
The Palace of Electricity
Mary Evans Picture Library.
23
A section of the Tevatron tunnel at Fermilab
U.S. Department of Energy, Fermilab Research Alliance LLC.
24
Patent on the cyclotron
Public domain.
25
Birth and death in the microworld
Plate 8.5, Successive decay of the
π
-meson,
π
--> µ -->
β
From C. F. Powell, P. H. Fowler, and D. H. Perkins,
The Study of Elementary Particles by the Photographic Method
(Pergamon Press, 1959; reprinted with permission from AAAS).
26
Very big science
CERN / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.