Front Matter
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Table of Contents
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Preface
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Dedications and Acknowledgments
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Triangulation (600 BCE)
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Pythagorean Monochord (500 BCE)
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Phases of the Moon (448 BCE)
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Empedocles Discovers Air (450 BCE)
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Aristotle’s Universe (350 BCE)
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Relative Distance of the Sun and the Moon (280 BCE)
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Archimedes’s Balance (250 BCE)
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Archimedes’s Principle (250 BCE)
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The Size of the Earth (225 BCE)
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Philoponus on Free Fall (550 CE)
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The Optics of Vision (1020 CE)
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Oresme’s Triangle (1360)
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Leonardo and Earthshine (1510)
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The Copernican Cosmos (1543)
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The Impossibility of Perpetual Motion (1586)
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Snell’s Law (1621)
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The Mountains on the Moon (1610)
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The Moons of Jupiter (1610)
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Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion (1620)
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Galileo on Free Fall (1638)
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Galileo on Projectile Motion (1638)
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Scaling and Similitude (1638)
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The Weight of Air (1644)
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Boyle’s Law (1662)
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Newton’s Theory of Color (1666)
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Free-Body Diagrams (1687)
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Newton’s Cradle (1687)
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Newtonian Trajectories (1687)
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Huygens’s Principle (1690)
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Bernoulli’s Principle (1733)
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Electrostatics (1785)
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Young’s Double Slit (1801)
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Oersted’s Demonstration (1820)
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Carnot’s Simplest Heat Engine (1836)
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Joule’s Apparatus (1847)
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Faraday’s Lines of Force (1852)
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Maxwell’s Electromagnetic Waves (1865)
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Photoelectric Effect (1905)
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Brownian Motion (1905)
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Rutherford’s Gold Foil Experiment (1910)
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X-rays and Crystals (1912)
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Bohr’s Hydrogen Atom (1913)
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General Relativity (1915)
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Compton Scattering (1923)
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Matter Waves (1924)
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The Expanding Universe (1927–1929)
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The Neutrino and Conservation of Energy (1930)
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Discovering the Neutron (1932)
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Nuclear Fission and Nuclear Fusion (1942)
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Global Greenhouse Effect (1988)
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Higgs Boson (2012)
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Afterword
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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