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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

A fascinating collection of stories about key firsts in science. Pythagoras intuited that the earth was round. Charles Darwin discovered the source of nature's intrincate diversity. Marie Curie traced radiactivity to the atom. Edwin Hubble discovered the expanding universe. Albert Einstein reshaped our views of matter and energy, space and time. Lyn Margulis showed that nature is far more promiscuous and creative than Darwin dreamed. These brilliant men and women are a part of a very special group-scientists who made truly original, groundbreaking discoveries. Science Firsts tells the stories of thirty-five of the most important firsts in the history of science. You'll encounter such extraordinary figures as Enrico Fermi, the first to unleash the power of the atom; Joseph Priestley, the first to produce oxygen and glimpse photosynthesis in action; and Guglielmo Marconi, the first to make wireless communication a reality. Science Firsts reveals how these incredible minds ventured into previously unseen territory to satisfy their hunger for knowledge and, in doing so, changed the course of history.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

-Contents.

-Acknowledgments.

-Introduction.

-1. Thales and Natural Causation.

-2. Anaximander Orders the Cosmos.

-3. Pythagoras Numbers the Cosmos.

-4. Atoms and the Void.

-5. Artistotle and the Birth of Biology.

-6. Aristarchus, the Forgotten Copernicus.

-7. Archimedes's Physics.

-8. Ibn al-Haitham Illuminates Vision.

-9. Copernicus Moves the Earth.

-10. Galileo Discovers the Skies.

-11. Kepler Solves the Planetary Puzzle.

-12. Van Leeuwenhoek Explores the Microcosm.

-13. Newton: Gravity and Light.

-14. A Breath of Fresh Air.

-15. Humphry Davy, Intoxicated and Discovery.

-16. Visionaries of the Computer.

-17. Darwin's Great Truth.

-18. A Genius in the Garden.

-19. Mendeleev Charts the Elements.

-20. In the Realm of Radiactivity.

-21. Planck's Quantum Leap.

-22. Wired on Wireless.

-23. Rutherford Dissects the Atom.

-24. Einstein: Matter, Energy, Space, and Time.

-25. Wegener Sets the Continents Adrift.

-26. Hubble's Expanding Universe.

-27. Out of Africa.

-28. Fermi and the Fire of Gods.

-29. McClintock's Chromosomes.

-30. A Bit of Genius.

-31. The Dynamic Duo of DNA.

-32. Echoes of Creation.

-33. We Are Not What We Seem.

-34. Planetary Pioneers.

-35. After Dolly, Life Will Never Be the Same.

-References and Further Reading.

-Index.