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| The Scientific Quest...and This Book | |
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| Off-Center? It Can't Be! | |
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| A New Age: Bringing New Ways of Seeing | |
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| What's to Be Made of Leonardo? | |
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| On Revolutions and Fools | |
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| Tycho Brahe: Taking Heaven's Measure | |
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| Holding a Ruler to the Sky | |
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| Renaissance Men | |
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| Gazing at a Star Named Galileo | |
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| Moving Relatively or Relatively Moving? | |
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| Are Novas Really "New" Stars? As to Supernovas-Wow! | |
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| About Suns and Stuff (Galileo Didn't Know Any of This) | |
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| Moving the Sun and the Earth | |
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| Who Did Invent the Telescope? | |
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| Do You Think You Have Troubles? | |
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| Getting Along by Staying Apart: Religion and Science | |
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| Poor Kepler | |
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| Those Eccentric Ellipses | |
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| Descartes and His Coordinates | |
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| At Last, Proof of the Last | |
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| What's the Big Attraction? | |
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| Gravity-How Absurd! | |
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| Calculus? Who Done It? | |
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| Newton Sees the Light | |
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| Newton Moves | |
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| Fame Finds Newton | |
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| Edmond Halley, Mr. Comet | |
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| A Dane Lights the Way | |
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| Clocking Time (and Speed) with Io: Here's the Math | |
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| What's the Matter? (About Elements and Alchemy) | |
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| An Elemental Tale | |
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| Robert Boyle, Skeptic-or Airhead? | |
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| Is Air Something-or Nothing? | |
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| Daniel and the Old Lion Hunter | |
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| Brains and Beauty Squared | |
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| It's a Gas! Take Its Temperature! | |
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| Turning on the Heat | |
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| Weighing the World | |
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| The Right Man for the Job | |
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| A Man with a Powerful Head | |
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| France Sings a Metric Tune | |
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| Dalton Takes Us Back to Greece-and Atoms | |
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| A Molecule-and-Number Man | |
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| Chemical Bondage | |
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| Putting Things in Order | |
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| The Periodic Table: A Chemical Family Tree | |
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| The Heated Story of an American Spy | |
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| A Shocking Science | |
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| A Pendulum's Proof | |
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| Michael Faraday Has a Field Day | |
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| Turning on the Light | |
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| Maxwell's Charges | |
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| Again and Again and Again-That's Frequency | |
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| Bulldog Boltzmann | |
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| How Fast Is a Gas? | |
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| Inside the Atom | |
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| Wake Up! This Is About Work, Which Takes Energy | |
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| Information-Age Thinking in the Industrial Era | |
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| A Number-One Law, Thermodynamically Speaking | |
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| Obeying the (Second) Law | |
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| Tying Down a Demon | |
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| Nothing to Do? | |
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| Wrapping Up and Getting Ready | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| NSTA Recommends | |
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| Picture Credits | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Scientific Abbreviations | |
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| Index | |