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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Bill Bryson
Introduction
Acknowledgments
James Gleick
At the Beginning: More things in Heaven and Earth
Margaret Atwood
Of the Madness of Mad Scientists: Jonathan Swift’s Grand Academy
Margaret Wertheim
Lost Inspace: The Spititual Crisis of Newtonian Cosmology
Neal Stephenson
Atoms of Cognition: Metaphysics in the Royal Society, 1715–2010
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
What’s in a Name? Rivalries and the Birth of Modern Science
Simon Schaffer
Charged Atmospheres: Promethean Science and the Royal Society
Richard Holmes
A New Age of Flight: Joseph Banks Goes Ballooning
Richard Fortey
Archives of Life: Science and Collections
Richard Dawkins
Darwin’s Five Bridges: The Way to Natural Selection
Henry Petroski
Images of Progress: Conferences of Engineers
Georgina Ferry
X-Ray Visions: Structural Biologists and Social Action in the Twentieth Century
Steve Jones
Ten Thousand Wedges: Biodiversity, Natural Selection and Random Change
Philip Ball
Making Stuff: From Bacon to Bakelite
Paul Davies
Just Typical: Our Changing Place in the Universe
Ian Stewart
Behind the Scenes: The Hidden Mathematics that Rules our World
John D. Barrow
Simple, Really: From Simplicity to Complexity – and Back Again
Oliver Morton
Globe and Sphere, Cycles and Flows: How to see the World
Maggie Gee
Beyond Ending: Looking into the Void
Stephen H. Schneider
Confidence, Consensus and the Uncertainty Cops: Tackling Risk Management in Climate Change
Gregory Benford
Time: The Winged Chariot
Martinrees
Conclusion: Looking Fifty Years Ahead
Further Reading
List of Illustrations
Index
About the Author
Also by Bill Bryson
Copyright
About the Publisher
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