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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Renaissance Man: 1509: Publication of de Divina Proportione | |
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| Talkin' 'bout a Revolution: 1542: Publication of de Revolutionibus | |
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| Lens Crafters: Circa 1590: Invention of the Microscope | |
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| Good Heavens: January 7, 1610: Galileo Discovers Moons of Jupiter | |
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| Gravity's Guru: July 1687: Publication of Newton's Principia | |
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| Drawing Down the Fire: June 1752: Franklin's Kite Experiment | |
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| Trompe I'Oeil: 1807: Invention of the Camera Lucida | |
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| Rules of Attraction: 1820: First Evidence of Electromagnetism | |
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| Ingenious Engines: Circa 1840S: Babbage's Analytical Engine | |
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| Emperors of the Air: September 24, 1852: First Dirigible Takes Flight | |
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| Disorderly Conduct: June 1871: Maxwell and his Demon | |
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| Queens of Science: November 1872: Death of Mary Somerville | |
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| Calling Mister Watson: March 10, 1876: First Documented Transmission of Human Speech | |
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| Thrill Seekers: 1884: First U.S. Roller Coaster Opens at Coney Island | |
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| Current Affairs: May 1888: Tesla and Electric Power Generation | |
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| Shadow Casters: February 2, 1893: Edison Films a Sneeze | |
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| Radio Days: 1895: Tesla Demonstrates Wireless Radio | |
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| Mysterious Rays: November 8, 1895: Roentgen Discovers x Rays | |
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| A Thousand Points of Light: October 1897: Discovery of the Electron | |
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| Quantum Leap: October 1900: Planck Introduces Quanta | |
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| It's All Relative: June 1905: Einstein Introduces Special Relativity | |
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| Rocket Man: March 16, 1926: Launch of the First Liquid-Fuel Rocket | |
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| That Darn Cat: 1935: Schrodinger's Quantum Cat | |
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| Copy That: October 1938: First Xerographic Copy | |
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| Life During Wartime: July 1945: The Trinity Test | |
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| Gimme Shelter: June 2-4, 1947: The Shelter Island Conference | |
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| Tiny Bubbles: 1948: Reddi-Wip Appears on the Market | |
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| Mimicking Mother Nature: May 13, 1958: Velcro Trademark Registered | |
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| Energize Me: December 1958: Invention of the Laser | |
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| Small World: December 29, 1959: Feynman's Classic Caltech Lecture | |
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| Contemplating Chaos: Circa January 1961: Lorenz and the Butterfly Effect | |
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| Kamikaze Cosmos: July 1963: Discovery of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation | |
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| When Particles Collide: April 1994: Discovery of the Top Quark | |
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| Checkmate: May 1997: Deep Blue Defeats Kasparov | |
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| Much Ado About Nothing: December 1998: Discovery of the Accelerating Universe | |
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| The Case of the Missing Neutrinos: February 2001: Solution to Solar Neutrino Problem | |
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| Icarus Descending: September 2002: Schoen Found Guilty of Scientific Misconduct | |
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| String Section: October 2003: Nova Special on String Theory | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgment | |
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| Index | |