Foreword
Chapter 1: The Ancients
Anaximander
Pythagoras
Hippocrates of Cos
Democritus of Abdera
Plato
Aristotle
Euclid
Archimedes
Hipparchus

Chapter 2: The First Millennium
Zhang Heng
Ptolemy
Galen of Pergamum
Al-Khwarizmi

Chapter 3: The Fifteenth Century
Johannes Gutenberg
Leonardo di Vinci
Nicolas Copernicus

Chapter 4: The Sixteenth Century
Andreas Vesalius
Wiliam Gilbert
Francis Bacon
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
William Harvey
Johann van Helmont

Chapter 5: The Seventeenth Century
Blaise Pascal
Robert Boyle
Christian Huygens
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Hooke

Chapter 6: The Eighteenth Century
Sir Isaac Newton
Edmund Halley
Thomas Newcomen
Daniel Fahrenheit
Benjamin Franklin
Joseph Black
Henry Cavendish
Joseph Priestley
James Watt
Charles de Coulomb
Joseph Montgolfier
Karl Wilhelm Scheele
Antoine Lavoisier
Count Alessandro Volta
Edward Jenner
John Dalton
Andre-Marie Ampere

Chapter 7: The Nineteenth Century
Amedeo Avogadro
Joseph Gay-Lussac
Charles Babbage
Michael Faraday
Charles Darwin
James Joule
Louis Pasteur
Johann Mendel
Jean-Joseph Lenoir
Lord Kelvin
James Maxwell
Alfred Nobel
Wilhelm Gottlieb Daimler
Dmitri Mendeleev
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Thomas Alva Edison
Alexandra Graham Bell
Antoine-Henri Becquerel
Paul Ehrlich

Chapter 8: The Twentieth Century
Nikola Tesla
Sir Joseph John Thomson
Sigmund Freud
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
Max Planck
Leo Baekeland
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Marie Curie
Sir Ernst Rutherford
The Wright Brothers
Guglielmo Marconi
Frederick Soddy
Albert Einstein
Sir Alexander Fleming
Robert Goddard
Niels Bohr
Erwin Schroedinger
Henry Moseley
Edwin Hubble
Sir James Chadwick
Frederick Banting
Louis de Broglie
Enrico Fermi
Werner Heisenberg
Linus Pauling
Robert Oppenheimer
Sir Frank Whittle
Edward Teller
William Shockley
Alan Turing
Jonas Salk
Rosalind Franklin
James Dewey Watson
Stephen Hawking
Tom Berners-Lee

Index