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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface | Playing with the Universe
Part I | Magnet
Chapter 1 | The Beginnings of Things
Chapter 2 | The Unpaired Spinning Electron
Chapter 3 | Parking in the Shadow of Magnetism’s Forgotten Man
Chapter 4 | Into Whose Embrace Iron Leaps
Chapter 5 | Revolutions on Paper
Chapter 6 | The Earth’s Magnetic Soul
Chapter 7 | Voyage into the Underworld
Chapter 8 | The Greatest Scientific Undertaking the World Had Ever Seen
Chapter 9 | The Rock That Turned the World Upside Down
Part II | Current
Chapter 10 | Experiment in Copenhagen
Chapter 11 | A Very Intimate Relationship
Chapter 12 | Jars Full of Lightning
Chapter 13 | The Apothecary’s Son
Chapter 14 | The Bookbinder’s Apprentice
Chapter 15 | Magnets Making Currents
Chapter 16 | The Lines That Fill the Air
Part III | Core
Chapter 17 | The Contorting Gyre
Chapter 18 | Shocks Inside the Earth
Chapter 19 | Pharaohs, Fairies, and a Tar-Paper Shack
Chapter 20 | Zebra Skins Under the Sea
Chapter 21 | At the Outer Edge of the Dynamo
Chapter 22 | Anomaly to the South
Chapter 23 | The Worst Physics Movie Ever
Chapter 24 | The Great Hazardous Spinning Sphere of Sodium
Part IV | Switch
Chapter 25 | Looking Up
Chapter 26 | Horrors the Lights Foretold
Chapter 27 | Lethal Patches
Chapter 28 | The Cost of Catastrophe
Chapter 29 | Trout Noses and Pigeon Beaks
Chapter 30 | A Suit of Stiff Black Crayon
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
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