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Index
Cover
Landing Page
Praise
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Prelude: The Misfit from Vinci
Going inside the Body
Galileo and the Telescope
William Harvey and the Witches
The Hunting Spider
Early Blood Transfusion
Little Animals in Water
An Apple and Colours
The Little Red Mouse and the Field Cricket
Two Mice Discover Oxygen
Discovering Uranus
The Big Bang and Vegetable Love
Taming the Speckled Monster
The Menace of Population
How the Giraffe Got its Neck
Medical Studies, Paris 1821
The Man with a Lid on his Stomach
Those Dreadful Hammers: Lyell and the New Geology
The Discovery of Worrying
Pictures for the Million
The Battle of the Ants
On a Candle
Heat Death
Adam’s Navel
Submarine Gardens of Eden: Devon, 1858–9
In Praise of Rust
The Devil’s Chaplain
The Discovery of Prehistory
Chains and Rings: Kekule’s Dreams
On a Piece of Chalk
Siberia Breeds a Prophet
Socialism and Bacteria
God and Molecules
Inventing Electric Light
Bird’s Custard: The True Story
Birth Control: The Diaphragm
Headless Sex: The Praying Mantis
The World as Sculpture
The Discovery of X-Rays
No Sun in Paris
The Colour of Radium
The Innocence of Radium
The Secret of the Mosquito’s Stomach
The Poet and the Scientist
Wasps, Moths and Fossils
The Massacre of the Males
Freud on Perversion
Kitty Hawk
A Cuckoo in a Robin’s Nest
Was the World Made for Man?
Drawing the Nerves
Discovering the Nucleus
Death of a Naturalist
Relating Relativity
Uncertainty and Other Worlds
Quantum Mechanics: Mines and Machine-Guns
Why Light Travels in Straight Lines
Puzzle Interest
Submarine Blue
Sea-Cucumbers
Telling the Workers about Science
The Making of the Eye
Green Mould in the Wind
In the Black Squash Court: The First Atomic Pile
A Death and the Bomb
The Story of a Carbon Atom
Tides
The Hot, Mobile Earth
The Poet and the Surgeon
Enter Love and Enter Death
In the Primeval Swamp
Krakatau: The Aftermath
Gorillas
Toads
Russian Butterflies
Discovering a Medieval Louse
The Gecko’s Belly
On The Moon
Gravity
Otto Frisch Explains Atomic Particles
From Stardust to Flesh
Black Holes
The Fall-Out Planet
Galactic Diary of an Edwardian Lady
The Light of Common Day
Can We Know the Universe? Reflections on a Grain of Salt
Brain Size
On Not Discovering
Negative Predictions
Clever Animals
Great Fakes of Science
Unnatural Nature
Rags, Dolls and Teddy Bears
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
Seeing the Atoms in Crystals
The Plan of Living Things
Willow Seeds and the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Shedding Life
The Greenhouse Effect: An Alternative View
Fractals, Chaos and Strange Attractors
The Language of the Genes
The Good Earth is Dying
Acknowledgements
Index of Names
A, B, C
D, E, F
G, H, I
J, K, L
M, N, O
P, Q, R
S, T, U
V, W, X
Y, Z
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