Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-402) and index.
Chronologies -- Earliest Discoveries (30,000 B.C.-A.D. 499) -- The Medieval World (500-1449) -- The Scientific Revolution (1450-1749) -- The Industrializing World (1750-1899) -- The 20th Century (1900-2000) -- Feature Essays -- The Origins of Mathematics -- Some Thoughts About Nought -- Investigating the Solar System -- The Discovery of Boyle's Law -- Experiments to Determine the Nature of Light -- Pioneering Experiments on the Digestive System -- Discovering the Interior of the Earth -- The Discovery of X-rays -- The History of Plastics -- A Brief Chronology of Quantum Physics -- The Discovery of the Structure of DNA -- The Discovery of Pulsars -- Shades of Green Ethics and Value in Ecology -- The Discovery of Carbon Fullerenes -- The Quest for the Red Planet -- The Human Genome Project -- App. Nobel Prize for Chemistry -- App. Nobel Prize for Physics -- App. Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine -- App. Fields Medal for Mathematics -- App. Discovery of the Elements