Contents

Contents : Aristotle; Archimedes; Zhang Heng; Alhazen; Roger Bacon; Galileo Galiulei; William Harvey; Robert Hooke; Isaac Newton; Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier; Benjamin Franklin; Joseph Banks; Georges Cuvier; Charles Darwin; Charles Babbage; Michael Faraday; Thomas Edison; Louis Pasteur; Dmitry Mendeleyev; Marie Curie; Ernest Rutherford; Albert Einstein; Alfred Wegener; Edwin Hubble; Crick and Watson; Alan Turing; James Lovelock; Dorothy Hodgkin; Richard Feynman; Stephen Hawking; Science and the future; Milestones in science; find out more; The Nobel Prize; glossary; index;