TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction vii
Acknowledgments xvii
PART ONE: Founders of Modern Science 1
Chapter 1: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 3
Chapter 2: Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) 34
Chapter 3: Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 59
Chapter 4: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) 79
Chapter 5: Isaac Newton (1643-1727) 102
Chapter 6: Charles Darwin (1809-1882) 122
Chapter 7: Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 143
Chapter 8: Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) 177
PART TWO: Scientists of Our Time
Chapter 9: Rachel Carson (1907-1964) 197
Chapter 10: Carl Sagan (1934-1996) 222
Chapter 11: Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) 249
Chapter 12: Richard Dawkins (1941-) 268
Chapter 13: Jane Goodall (1934-) 296
Chapter 14: Steven Weinberg (1933-) 317
Chapter 15: John Polkinghorne (1930-) 340
Chapter 16: Freeman Dyson (1923-) 365
Chapter 17: Stephen Hawking (1942-) 392
Chapter 18: Paul Davies (1946-) 412
Chapter 19: Edward O. Wilson (1929-) 437
Chapter 20: Stuart A. Kauffman (1939-) 452
Chapter 21: Ursula Goodenough (1944-) 475
Permission Acknowledgments 505
Index 513
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