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Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book tells...

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INTRODUCTION & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BILLBRYSON
1 AT THE BEGINNING: MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND
EARTH JAMES GLEICK
2 OF THE MADNESS OF MAD SCIENTISTS: JONATHAN
SWIFT`S GRAND ACADEMY MARGARET ATWOOD
5 LOST IN SPACE: THE SPIRITUAL CRISIS OF
NEWTONIAN
COSMOLOGY
MARGARET WERTHEIM
4 ATOMS OF COGNITION: METAPHYSICS IN THE
ROYAL SOCIETY, 1715-2010 NEAL STEPHENSON
5 WHAT`S IN A NAME? RIVALRIES AND THE BIRTH
OF MODERN SCIENCE
REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN 97
6 CHARGED ATMOSPHERES:
PROMETHEAN SCIENCE AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY
SIMON SCHAFFER
7 A NEW AGE OF FLIGHT: JOSEPH BANKS GOES
BALLOONING RICHARD HOLMES
8 ARCHIVES OF LIFE: SCIENCE AND COLLECTIONS
RICHARD FORTEY
9 DARWIN`S FIVE BRIDGES: THE WAY TO NATURAL
SELECTION RICHARD DAWKINS
10 IMAGES OF PROGRESS: CONFERENCES OF
ENGINEERS HENRY PETROSKI
11 X-RAY VISIONS: STRUCTURAL BIOLOGISTS AND
SOCIAL ACTION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
GEORGINA FERRY
12 TEN THOUSAND WEDGES: BIODIVERSITY, NATURAL
SELECTION AND RANDOM CHANGE STEVE JONES
15 MAKING STUFF: FROM BACON TO BAKELITE PHILIP
BALL
14 JUST TYPICAL: OUR CHANGING PLACE IN THE
UNIVERSE PAULDAVIES
15 BEHIND THE SCENES: THE HIDDEN MATHEMATICS
THAT RULES OUR WORLD IAN STEWART
16 SIMPLE, REALLY: FROM SIMPLICITY TO
COMPLEXITY -AND BACK AGAIN JOHN D.BARROW
17 GLOBE AND SPHERE, CYCLES AND FLOWS: HOW TO
SEE THE WORLD OLIVER MORTON
18 BEYOND ENDING: LOOKING INTO THE VOID MAGGIE
GEE
19 CONFIDENCE, CONSENSUS AND THE UNCERTAINTY
COPS: TACKLING RISK MANAGEMENT IN CLIMATE
CHANGE STEPHEN H.SCHNEIDER
20 TIME: THE WINGED CHARIOT GREGORY BENFORD
CONCLUSION: LOOKING FIFTY YEARS AHEAD MARTIN
REES
FURTHER READING
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX