Contents

Contents : introduction -- early scientific ideas -- science in
Ancient Greece -- Medicine in the ancient world -- Islamic science -- science in medieval Europe -- the earth and the sun -- understanding the human body -- science during the Renaissance -- scientific societies -- the rise of experiment -- classifying the natural world -- the age of the earth -- evolution -- the growth of modern chemistry -- studying electricity -- the fight against disease -- waes and radiation -- the science of life -- opening up the atom -- the origin of the universe -- women in science -- key dates in scientific discovery -- index.