- Foreword
- Lower than the Angels[rtoc]
- Animal adaptation
- The human alternative
- Beginning in Africa
- Fossil evidence
- The gift of foresight
- Evolution of the head
- The mosaic of man
- The cultures of the hunter
- Across the ice ages
- Transhumance cultures: The Lapps
- Imagination in cave art[/rtoc]
- The Harvest of the Seasons[rtoc]
- The pace of cultural evolution
- Nomad cultures: the Bakhtiari
- Beginnings of agriculture: wheat
- Jericho
- Earthquake country
- Technology in the village
- The wheel
- Domestication of animals: the horse
- War games: Buz Kashi – Settled civilisation[/rtoc]
- The Grain in the Stone[rtoc]
- Coming to the New World
- Blood group evidence of migrations
- The actions of shaping and splitting
- Structure and hierarchy
- The city: Machu Picchu
- Straight-edge architecture: Paestum
- The Roman arch: Segovia
- The Gothic adventure: Rheims
- Science as architecture
- The hidden figure: Michelangelo to Moore
- Pleasure in construction
- Below the visible[/rtoc]
- The Hidden Structure[rtoc]
- Fire, the transforming element
- Extraction of metals: copper
- The structure of alloys
- Bronze as a work of art
- Iron to steel: the Japanese sword
- Gold
- The incorruptible
- Alchemical theory of man and nature
- Paracelsus and the coming of chemistry
- Fire and air: Joseph Priestley
- Antoine Lavoisier: combination can be quantified
- John Dalton’s atomic theory[/rtoc]
- The Music of the Spheres[rtoc]
- The language of numbers
- The key to harmony: Pythagoras
- The right-angled triangle
- Euclid and Ptolemy at Alexandria
- Rise of Islam
- Arabic numbers
- The Alhambra: patterns of space
- Crystal symmetries
- Perspective from Alhazen
- Movement in time, the new dynamic
- The mathematics of change[/rtoc]
- The Starry Messenger[rtoc]
- The cycle of seasons
- The unmapped sky: Easter Island
- Ptolemy’s system in the Dondi Clock
- Copernicus: the sun as centre
- The telescope
- Galileo opens the scientific method
- Prohibition of the Copernican system
- Dialogue on the two systems
- The Inquisition
- Galileo recants
- The Scientific Revolution moves north[/rtoc]
- The Majestic Clockwork[rtoc]
- Kepler’s laws
- The centre of the world
- Isaac Newton’s innovations: fluxions
- Unfolding the spectrum
- Gravitation and the Principia
- The intellectual dictator
- Challenge in satire
- Newton’s absolute space
- Absolute time
- Albert Einstein
- The traveller carries his own space and time
- Relativity is proved
- The new philosophy[/rtoc]
- The Drive for Power[rtoc]
- The English revolution
- Everyday technology: James Brindley
- The revolt against privilege: Figaro
- Benjamin Franklin and the American revolution
- The new men: masters of iron
- The new outlook: Wedgwood and the Lunar society
- The driving factory
- The new preoccupation: energy
- The cornucopia of invention
- The unity of nature[/rtoc]
- The Ladder of Creation[rtoc]
- The naturalists
- Charles Darwin
- Alfred Wallace
- Impact of South America
- The wealth of species
- Wallace loses his collection
- Natural selection conceived
- The continuity of evolution
- Louis Pasteur: right hand, left hand
- Chemical constants in evolution
- The origin of life
- The four bases
- Are other forms of life possible?[/rtoc]
- World Within World[rtoc]
- The cube of salt
- Its elements
- Mendeleev’s game of patience
- The periodic table
- J. J. Thomson: the atom has parts
- Structure in new art
- Structure in the atom: Rutherford and Niels Bohr
- The life cycle of a theory
- The nucleus has parts
- The neutron: Chadwick and Fermi
- Evolution of the elements
- The second law as statistics
- Stratified stability
- Copying the physics of nature
- Ludwig Boltzmann: atoms are real[/rtoc]
- Knowledge of Certainty[rtoc]
- There is no absolute knowledge
- The spectrum of invisible radiations
- The refinement of detail
- Gauss and the idea of uncertainty
- The sub-structure of reality: Max Born
- Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty
- The principle of tolerance: Leo Szilard
- Science is human[/rtoc]
- Generation upon Generation[rtoc]
- The voice of insurrection
- The kitchen garden naturalist: Gregor Mendel
- Genetics of the pea
- Instant oblivion
- An all-or-nothing model of inheritance
- The magic number two: sex
- Crick and Watson’s model of DNA
- Replication and growth
- Cloning of identical forms
- Sexual choice in human diversity[/rtoc]
- The Long Childhood[rtoc]
- Man, the social solitary
- Human specificity
- Specific development of the brain
- Precision of the hand
- The speech areas
- The postponement of decision
- The mind as an instrument of preparation
- The democracy of the intellect
- The moral imagination
- The brain and the computer: John von Neumann
- The strategy of values
- Knowledge is our destiny
- The commitment of man[/rtoc]
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