The Science Book
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The Science Book

From Darwin to Dark Energy, 250 Milestones in the History of Science

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The Science Book

From Darwin to Dark Energy, 250 Milestones in the History of Science

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From astronomy to psychology, this beautifully illustrated chronology presents the most important and groundbreaking milestones in science. Award-winning author Cliff Pickover ( The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical Book ) gathers into one fully illustrated volume the most important thinkers and ideas in the history of science. This unique omnibus edition includes 250 thoughtfully selected entries from many of the science-based books in the Sterling Milestones series, including math, physics, medicine, biology, chemistry, engineering, psychology, and space. With a new introduction by Pickover explaining how this impressive collection was curated, The Science Book showcases humanity's greatest achievements and provides readers with a sense of wonder at the diversity of scientific discovery.

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Publisher
Union Square & Co.
Year
2019
ISBN
9781454933007
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Science General
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. c. 18,000 BCE Ishango Bone Clifford A. Pickover
  7. c. 11,000 BCE Wheat: The Staff of Life Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  8. c. 10,000 BCE Agriculture Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  9. c. 10,000 BCE Domestication of Animals Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  10. c. 7000 BCE Rice Cultivation Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  11. c. 5000 BCE Birth of Cosmology Jim Bell
  12. c. 3300 BCE Bronze Derek B. Lowe
  13. c. 3000 BCE Dice Clifford A. Pickover
  14. c. 3000 BCE Sundial Clifford A. Pickover
  15. c. 3000 BCE Sutures Clifford A. Pickover
  16. c. 2500 BCE Egyptian Astronomy Jim Bell
  17. c. 1850 BCE Arch Clifford A. Pickover
  18. c. 1650 BCE Rhind Papyrus Clifford A. Pickover
  19. c. 1300 BCE Iron Smelting Derek B. Lowe
  20. c. 1000 BCE Olmec Compass Clifford A. Pickover
  21. c. 600 BCE Pythagorean Theorem and Triangles Clifford A. Pickover
  22. c. 600 BCE Sewage Systems Clifford A. Pickover
  23. c. 350 BCE Aristotle’s Organon Clifford A. Pickover
  24. c. 350 BCE Platonic Solids Clifford A. Pickover
  25. c. 300 BCE Euclid’s Elements Clifford A. Pickover
  26. c. 250 BCE Archimedes’ Principle of Buoyancy Clifford A. Pickover
  27. c. 250 BCE π Clifford A. Pickover
  28. c. 240 BCE Eratosthenes Measures the Earth Clifford A. Pickover
  29. c. 240 BCE Sieve of Eratosthenes Clifford A. Pickover
  30. c. 230 BCE Pulley Clifford A. Pickover
  31. c. 125 BCE Antikythera Mechanism Clifford A. Pickover
  32. c. 50 Gears Clifford A. Pickover
  33. c. 126 Roman Concrete Derek B. Lowe
  34. c. 650 Zero Clifford A. Pickover
  35. 830 al-Khwarizmi’s Algebra Clifford A. Pickover
  36. c. 850 Gunpowder Derek B. Lowe
  37. 1202 Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci Clifford A. Pickover
  38. 1284 Eyeglasses Clifford A. Pickover
  39. c. 1500 Early Calculus Jim Bell
  40. 1509 Golden Ratio Clifford A. Pickover
  41. 1543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica Clifford A. Pickover
  42. 1543 Sun-Centered Universe Clifford A. Pickover
  43. 1545 Paré’s “Rational Surgery” Clifford A. Pickover
  44. 1572 Imaginary Numbers Clifford A. Pickover
  45. 1608 Telescope Clifford A. Pickover
  46. 1609 Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion Clifford A. Pickover
  47. 1614 Logarithms Clifford A. Pickover
  48. 1620 Scientific Method Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  49. 1621 Slide Rule Clifford A. Pickover
  50. 1628 Circulatory System Clifford A. Pickover
  51. 1637 Descartes’ La GĂ©omĂ©trie Clifford A. Pickover
  52. 1638 Acceleration of Falling Objects Clifford A. Pickover
  53. 1639 Projective Geometry Clifford A. Pickover
  54. 1654 Pascal’s Triangle Clifford A. Pickover
  55. 1660 Von Guericke’s Electrostatic Generator Clifford A. Pickover
  56. 1665 Development of Modern Calculus Clifford A. Pickover
  57. 1665 Micrographia Clifford A. Pickover
  58. 1668 Refuting Spontaneous Generation Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  59. 1672 Measuring the Solar System Clifford A. Pickover
  60. 1672 Newton’s Prism Clifford A. Pickover
  61. 1678 Discovery of Sperm Clifford A. Pickover
  62. 1683 Zoo Within Us Clifford A. Pickover
  63. 1687 Newton as Inspiration Clifford A. Pickover
  64. 1687 Newton’s Laws of Motion and Gravitation Clifford A. Pickover
  65. 1713 Law of Large Numbers Clifford A. Pickover
  66. 1727 Euler’s Number, e Clifford A. Pickover
  67. 1733 Normal Distribution Curve Clifford A. Pickover
  68. 1735 Linnaean Classification of Species Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  69. 1738 Bernoulli’s Law of Fluid Dynamics Clifford A. Pickover
  70. 1760 Artificial Selection (Selective Breeding) Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  71. 1761 Bayes’ Theorem Clifford A. Pickover
  72. 1761 Causes of Cancer Clifford A. Pickover
  73. 1761 Morgagni’s “Cries of Suffering Organs” Clifford A. Pickover
  74. 1783 Black Holes Clifford A. Pickover
  75. 1785 Coulomb’s Law of Electrostatics Clifford A. Pickover
  76. 1797 Fundamental Theorem of Algebra Clifford A. Pickover
  77. 1798 Smallpox Vaccine Clifford A. Pickover
  78. 1800 Battery Clifford A. Pickover
  79. 1800 High-Pressure Steam Engine Marshall Brain
  80. 1801 Wave Nature of Light Clifford A. Pickover
  81. 1807 Fourier Series Clifford A. Pickover
  82. 1808 Atomic Theory Clifford A. Pickover
  83. 1812 Laplace’s ThĂ©orie Analytique des ProbabilitĂ©s Clifford A. Pickover
  84. 1822 Babbage Mechanical Computer Clifford A. Pickover
  85. 1824 Carnot Engine Clifford A. Pickover
  86. 1824 Greenhouse Effect Clifford A. Pickover
  87. 1825 Ampùre’s Law of Electromagnetism Clifford A. Pickover
  88. 1827 Brownian Motion Clifford A. Pickover
  89. 1828 Germ-Layer Theory of Development Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  90. 1829 Blood Transfusion Clifford A. Pickover
  91. 1829 Non-Euclidean Geometry Clifford A. Pickover
  92. 1831 Cell Nucleus Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  93. 1831 Darwin and the Voyages of the Beagle Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  94. 1831 Faraday’s Laws of Induction Clifford A. Pickover
  95. 1836 Fossil Record and Evolution Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  96. 1837 Nitrogen Cycle and Plant Chemistry Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  97. 1837 Telegraph System Marshall Brain
  98. 1839 Daguerreotype Derek B. Lowe
  99. 1839 Rubber Derek B. Lowe
  100. 1841 Fiber Optics Clifford A. Pickover
  101. 1842 General Anesthesia Clifford A. Pickover
  102. 1843 Conservation of Energy Clifford A. Pickover
  103. 1844 Transcendental Numbers Clifford A. Pickover
  104. 1847 Semmelweis’s Hand Washing Clifford A. Pickover
  105. 1850 Second Law of Thermodynamics Clifford A. Pickover
  106. 1855 Bessemer Process Marshall Brain
  107. 1855 Cell Division Clifford A. Pickover
  108. 1856 Plastic Marshall Brain
  109. 1858 Möbius Strip Clifford A. Pickover
  110. 1859 Darwin’s Theory of Natural Section Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  111. 1859 Ecological Interactions Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  112. 1859 Kinetic Theory Clifford A. Pickover
  113. 1859 Riemann Hypothesis Clifford A. Pickover
  114. 1861 Cerebral Localization Clifford A. Pickover
  115. 1861 Maxwell’s Equations Clifford A. Pickover
  116. 1862 Germ Theory of Disease Clifford A. Pickover
  117. 1864 Electromagnetic Spectrum Clifford A. Pickover
  118. 1865 Antiseptics Clifford A. Pickover
  119. 1865 Mendel’s Genetics Clifford A. Pickover
  120. 1869 Periodic Table Derek B. Lowe
  121. 1874 Cantor’s Transfinite Numbers Clifford A. Pickover
  122. 1875 Boltzmann’s Entropy Equation Clifford A. Pickover
  123. 1876 Gibbs Free Energy Derek B. Lowe
  124. 1876 Telephone Marshall Brain
  125. 1878 Enzymes Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  126. 1878 Incandescent Light Bulb Clifford A. Pickover
  127. 1878 Power Grid Marshall Brain
  128. 1887 Michelson-Morley Experiment Clifford A. Pickover
  129. 1888 Tesseract Clifford A. Pickover
  130. 1890 Steam Turbine Marshall Brain
  131. 1890 The Principles of Psychology Wade E. Pickren
  132. 1891 Neuron Doctrine Clifford A. Pickover
  133. 1892 Discovery of Viruses Clifford A. Pickover
  134. 1895 X-rays Clifford A. Pickover
  135. 1896 Proof of the Prime Number Theorem Clifford A. Pickover
  136. 1896 Radioactivity Clifford A. Pickover
  137. 1897 Electron Clifford A. Pickover
  138. 1899 Psychoanalysis Clifford A. Pickover
  139. 1900 Blackbody Radiation Law Clifford A. Pickover
  140. 1900 Hilbert’s 23 Problems Clifford A. Pickover
  141. 1902 Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance Clifford A. Pickover
  142. 1903 Wright Brothers’ Airplane Marshall Brain
  143. 1903 Classical Conditioning Wade E. Pickren
  144. 1905 E = mc2 Clifford A. Pickover
  145. 1905 Photoelectric Effect Clifford A. Pickover
  146. 1905 Special Theory of Relativity Clifford A. Pickover
  147. 1908 Internal Combustion Engine Marshall Brain
  148. 1910 Chlorination of Water Clifford A. Pickover
  149. 1910 Main Sequence Jim Bell
  150. 1911 Atomic Nucleus Clifford A. Pickover
  151. 1911 Superconductivity Clifford A. Pickover
  152. 1912 Bragg’s Law of Crystal Diffraction Clifford A. Pickover
  153. 1912 Continental Drift Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  154. 1913 Bohr Atom Clifford A. Pickover
  155. 1915 General Theory of Relativity Clifford A. Pickover
  156. 1919 String Theory Clifford A. Pickover
  157. 1920 Hydrogen Bonding Derek B. Lowe
  158. 1920 Radio Station Marshall Brain
  159. 1921 Noether’s Idealtheorie Clifford A. Pickover
  160. 1921 Einstein as Inspiration Clifford A. Pickover
  161. 1924 De Broglie Relation Clifford A. Pickover
  162. 1925 Pauli Exclusion Principle Clifford A. Pickover
  163. 1926 Schrödinger’s Wave Equation Clifford A. Pickover
  164. 1927 Complementarity Principle Clifford A. Pickover
  165. 1927 Food Webs Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  166. 1927 Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Clifford A. Pickover
  167. 1927 Insect Dance Language Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  168. 1928 Dirac Equation Clifford A. Pickover
  169. 1928 Penicillin Clifford A. Pickover
  170. 1929 Hubble’s Law of Cosmic Expansion Clifford A. Pickover
  171. 1931 Gödel’s Theorem Clifford A. Pickover
  172. 1932 Antimatter Clifford A. Pickover
  173. 1932 Neutron Clifford A. Pickover
  174. 1933 Dark Matter Clifford A. Pickover
  175. 1933 Polyethylene Derek B. Lowe
  176. 1933 Neutron Stars Clifford A. Pickover
  177. 1935 EPR Paradox Clifford A. Pickover
  178. 1935 Schrödinger’s Cat Clifford A. Pickover
  179. 1936 Turing Machines Clifford A. Pickover
  180. 1937 Cellular Respiration Derek B. Lowe
  181. 1937 Superfluids Clifford A. Pickover
  182. 1938 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Clifford A. Pickover
  183. 1941 Doped Silicon Marshall Brain
  184. 1942 Energy from the Nucleus Clifford A. Pickover
  185. 1945 Little Boy Atomic Bomb Clifford A. Pickover
  186. 1945 Uranium Enrichment Marshall Brain
  187. 1946 ENIAC Clifford A. Pickover
  188. 1946 Stellar Nucleosynthesis Clifford A. Pickover
  189. 1947 Hologram Clifford A. Pickover
  190. 1947 Photosynthesis Derek B. Lowe
  191. 1947 Transistor Clifford A. Pickover
  192. 1948 Information Theory Clifford A. Pickover
  193. 1948 Quantum Electrodynamics Clifford A. Pickover
  194. 1948 Randomized Controlled Trials Clifford A. Pickover
  195. 1949 Radiocarbon Dating Clifford A. Pickover
  196. 1949 Time Travel Clifford A. Pickover
  197. 1950 Chess Computer Marshall Brain
  198. 1950 Fermi Paradox Clifford A. Pickover
  199. 1951 HeLa Cells Clifford A. Pickover
  200. 1952 Cellular Automata Clifford A. Pickover
  201. 1952 Miller-Urey Experiment Derek B. Lowe
  202. 1953 DNA Structure Clifford A. Pickover
  203. 1955 Atomic Clocks Clifford A. Pickover
  204. 1955 Birth-Control Pill Clifford A. Pickover
  205. 1955 Placebo Effect Clifford A. Pickover
  206. 1955 Ribosomes Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  207. 1956 Parallel Universes Clifford A. Pickover
  208. 1957 Antidepressant Medications Wade E. Pickren
  209. 1957 Space Satellite Marshall Brain
  210. 1958 Central Dogma of Molecular Biology Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  211. 1958 Integrated Circuit Clifford A. Pickover
  212. 1959 Structure of Antibodies Clifford A. Pickover
  213. 1960 Laser Clifford A. Pickover
  214. 1961 Cracking the Genetic Code for Protein Biosynthesis Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  215. 1961 First Humans in Space Jim Bell
  216. 1961 Green Revolution Marshall Brain
  217. 1961 Standard Model Clifford A. Pickover
  218. 1963 Chaos and the Butterfly Effect Clifford A. Pickover
  219. 1963 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Clifford A. Pickover
  220. 1964 Brain Lateralization Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  221. 1964 Quarks Clifford A. Pickover
  222. 1965 Cosmic Microwave Background Clifford A. Pickover
  223. 1966 Dynamic RAM Marshall Brain
  224. 1967 Endosymbiont Theory Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  225. 1967 Heart Transplant Clifford A. Pickover
  226. 1967 Saturn V Rocket Marshall Brain
  227. 1969 ARPANET Marshall Brain
  228. 1969 First on the Moon Jim Bell
  229. 1972 Genetic Engineering Marshall Brain
  230. 1975 Feigenbaum Constant Clifford A. Pickover
  231. 1975 Fractals Clifford A. Pickover
  232. 1977 Public-Key Cryptography Clifford A. Pickover
  233. 1978 Theory of Mind Wade E. Pickren
  234. 1979 Gravitational Lensing Jim Bell
  235. 1980 Cosmic Inflation Clifford A. Pickover
  236. 1981 Quantum Computers Clifford A. Pickover
  237. 1982 Artificial Heart Marshall Brain
  238. 1983 Epigenetics Clifford A. Pickover
  239. 1983 Polymerase Chain Reaction Clifford A. Pickover
  240. 1984 Telomerase Clifford A. Pickover
  241. 1984 Theory of Everything Clifford A. Pickover
  242. 1987 Mitochondrial Eve Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  243. 1990 Domains of Life Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald
  244. 1990 Hubble Telescope Clifford A. Pickover
  245. 1990 World Wide Web Marshall Brain
  246. 1994 Global Positioning System (GPS) Marshall Brain
  247. 1998 Dark Energy Clifford A. Pickover
  248. 1998 International Space Station Jim Bell
  249. 2003 Human Genome Project Clifford A. Pickover
  250. 2004 Spirit and Opportunity on Mars Jim Bell
  251. 2008 Human Cloning Clifford A. Pickover
  252. 2009 Large Hadron Collider Clifford A. Pickover
  253. 2016 Gene Therapy Clifford A. Pickover
  254. 2016 Gravitational Waves Jim Bell
  255. 2017 Proof of the Kepler Conjecture Clifford A. Pickover
  256. Notes and Further Reading
  257. About the Contributors
  258. Photo Credits