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Index
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Babylonian Awakening
Ancient Egyptian Mathematics
Zeno’s Paradox and Other Presocratic Fragments
The Saltness of the Sea
Atoms and Infinity
Whirlwinds
The Penalty of Rust
The Ferris Wheel Universe
The Colour of Shame
Imposters
The Gates of Knowledge
Dream Pool Essays
Empirical Rainbows
The Art of Numbring
Copernican Revolutions
Supernova
The Moons of Jupiter
The Circulation of Blood
A Quire of Echoes
The Air-Pump
The Discovery of Plant Cells
Mayflies
Sunspots
Temperature Scales
Newtonian Apples
Newton for the Ladies
Inoculation
Walking Plants
Scientific Style
Insiders and Outsiders
Glaciers
Electricity
Blunt versus Pointed
Seismic Waves
Classification
The Cure for Scurvy
Animal Magnetism
On His Colour-Blindness
Comet Sweeper
Botanical Poems
Phosphorus
The Miner’s Safety Lamp
Brownian Motion
The Velocity of Meteorites
First Use of the Word ‘Scientist’
The First Computer
The Silurian System
The Humboldt Current
The Temple of Serapis
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
Butterfly Hunting in Malaya
Drops of Water
The Physics of a Wet Towel
Pasteurization
Stammering
Dinosaur Teeth
Carnivorous Plants
Lunar Cosmorama
Krakatoa Dust
Edison’s Carbon Telephone
Fidgeting
Surface Tension
The Household Laboratory
In Search of Krypton
Radioactivity
N-Rays
Paranoid Schizophrenia
Ripples in the Sand
Snowflakes
Science versus Religion
Planck Time
The Quantum Theory of Light
The Force of Gravity Does Not Exist
Bombarding the Atom
Nuclear Fission
The Impact of the War on Scientists
Anti-Science
The Two Cultures
The Double Helix
Continental Drift
Fossil Collecting
Compass-Building Bacteria
Exploding Ants
The Human Reserve
The Evolution of the Eye
Lichenometrics
The Turtle’s Shell
Hebridean Seal Survival
The Mathematics of the ISBN
Brain Power
The Bends
Rounding Errors and the Butterfly Effect
Pulsars
The First Three Minutes
Black Holes
Climate Change
Fuzzy Sets and Beauty Maps
The Human Genome
Swimming with E. coli
Coffee Stains
The God Particle
Afterword
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
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