The Ancients | |
Euclid | p. 8 |
Archimedes | p. 12 |
Hipparchus & Claudius Ptolemy | p. 18 |
The Middle Ages | |
The Medieval Arab Scientists | p. 22 |
The Renaissance | |
Leonardo da Vinci | p. 26 |
Nicolas Copernicus | p. 31 |
Andreas Vesalius | p. 35 |
Galileo Galilei | p. 39 |
The Seventeenth Century | |
Christiaan Huygens | p. 45 |
Anton van Leeuwenhoek | p. 50 |
Robert Hooke | p. 54 |
Sir Isaac Newton | p. 58 |
The Eighteenth Century | |
Carolus Linnaeus | p. 64 |
James Hutton | p. 68 |
Antoine Lavoisier | p. 72 |
John Dalton | p. 76 |
The Nineteenth Century | |
Michael Faraday | p. 80 |
Charles Babbage | p. 84 |
Charles Darwin | p. 89 |
Louis Pasteur | p. 95 |
Gregor Mendel | p. 99 |
Dmitri Mendeleyev | p. 103 |
James Clerk Maxwell | p. 107 |
The Twentieth Century | |
Max Planck | p. 111 |
Marie Curie | p. 115 |
Ernest Rutherford | p. 119 |
Albert Einstein | p. 123 |
Alfred Wegener | p. 128 |
Niels Bohr | p. 132 |
Edwin Hubble | p. 136 |
Werner Heisenberg | p. 140 |
Linus Pauling | p. 144 |
The DNA Team: Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin | p. 149 |
Stephen Hawking | p. 154 |
Index | p. 159 |
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