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Index
Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction 1 The Upward Thrust of Water 2 Measuring the Diameter of the Earth 3 The Eye as a Pinhole Camera 4 Dissecting the Human Body 5 Measuring the Magnetic Field of the Earth 6 Measuring Inertia 7 Circulation of the Blood 8 Weighing the Atmosphere 9 Resisting the Squeeze 10 Revealing the Microscopic World 11 All the Colours of the Rainbow 12 The Speed of Light is Finite 13 Vitamin at Sea 14 Conducting the Lightning 15 The Heat of Ice 16 Steaming Ahead 17 Breathing Plants and Pure Air 18 Opening up the Solar System 19 Animal Heat, but No Animal Magic 20 Twitching Frogs and Electric Piles 21 Weighing the Earth 22 Boring Experiments on Heat 23 The First Vaccine 24 Feeling Invisible Light 25 Cosmic Rubble 26 Flying High with Hydrogen 27 Light is a Wave 28 Discovering Atoms 29 Electrifying Science 30 Quantifying Chemistry 31 Thinking about the Power of Fire 32 A Random Walk 33 The Magnetism of Electricity 34 The Death of Vitalism 35 Making Electricity 36 An Uplifting Experience 37 Blood Heat 38 Trumpeters on a Train 39 The Speed of Ice 40 Absorbing Radiant Heat 41 The Leviathan of Parsonstown 42 Controversy and Controls 43 From Fire Light to Star Light 44 Prevention is Better than Cure 45 Pinning Down the Speed of Light 46 Death to Bacteria 47 The Flowering of Evolution Theory 48 The Benzene Snake Dance 49 The Monk and the Peas 50 The Importance of Nothing 51 Feeling the Squeeze 52 The Speed of Light is Constant 53 Sparking Radio into Light 54 Noble Gases and a Noble Lord 55 The Birth of Biochemistry 56 Enter the X-Ray 57 Enter the Electron 58 Radioactivity Revealed 59 Knocking Electrons with Light 60 A Pavlovian Response 61 Journey to the Centre of the Earth 62 Inside the Atom 63 A Ruler for the Universe 64 The Discovery of Nucleic Acids 65 Evolution at Work 66 Something to Brag about 67 Light from the Darkness 68 Electron Waves and Quantum Duality 69 Taking the Rough with the Smooth 70 An Antibiotic Breakthrough 71 Splitting the Atom 72 Making Vitamin C 73 Probing Proteins 74 Artificial Radioactivity 75 The Cat in the Box 76 Fission Gets Heavy 77 The First Nuclear Reactor 78 The First Programmable Computer 79 Discovering the Role of DNA 80 Jumping Genes 81 The Alpha Helix 82 A Blend of DNA 83 The Double Helix 84 Making the Molecules of Life 85 Masers and Lasers 86 Magnetic Stripes and Sea-Floor Spreading 87 Detecting the Ghost Particle 88 A Vital Vitamin 89 The Breathing Planet 90 The Echo of the Big Bang 91 Clocking on to Relativity 92 Making Waves in the Universe 93 The Pacemaker of Ice Ages 94 The World is Non-Local 95 The Ultimate Quantum Experiment 96 The Accelerating Universe 97 Mapping the Human Genome 98 Fifteen Equals Three Times Five 99 Making Matter Massive 100 The Composition of the Universe Experiment 101 References Index Acknowledgements About the Authors About the Publisher
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