Pickover Clifford A. (Editor). The Science Book: From Darwin to Dark Energy, 250 Milestones in the History of Science

Sterling, 2019. — 528 р. — (Sterling Milestones). — ISBN 978-1454933007, 1454933003.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.Introduction.
c. 18,000 BCE Ishango Bone Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 11,000 BCE Wheat: The Staff of Life Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
c. 10,000 BCE Agriculture Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
c. 10,000 BCE Domestication of Animals Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
c. 7000 BCE Rice Cultivation Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
c. 5000 BCE Birth of Cosmology Jim Bell.
c. 3300 BCE Bronze Derek B. Lowe.
c. 3000 BCE Dice Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 3000 BCE Sundial Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 3000 BCE Sutures Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 2500 BCE Egyptian Astronomy Jim Bell.
c. 1850 BCE Arch Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 1650 BCE Rhind Papyrus Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 1300 BCE Iron Smelting Derek B. Lowe.
c. 1000 BCE Olmec Compass Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 600 BCE Pythagorean Theorem and Triangles Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 600 BCE Sewage Systems Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 350 BCE Aristotle’s Organon Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 350 BCE Platonic Solids Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 300 BCE Euclid’s Elements Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 250 BCE Archimedes’ Principle of Buoyancy Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 250 BCE π Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 240 BCE Eratosthenes Measures the Earth Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 240 BCE Sieve of Eratosthenes Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 230 BCE Pulley Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 125 BCE Antikythera Mechanism Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 50 Gears Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 126 Roman Concrete Derek B. Lowe.
c. 650 Zero Clifford A. Pickover.
830 al-Khwarizmi’s Algebra Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 850 Gunpowder Derek B. Lowe.
1202 Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci Clifford A. Pickover.
1284 Eyeglasses Clifford A. Pickover.
c. 1500 Early Calculus Jim Bell.
1509 Golden Ratio Clifford A. Pickover.
1543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica Clifford A. Pickover.
1543 Sun-Centered Universe Clifford A. Pickover.
1545 Paré’s “Rational Surgery” Clifford A. Pickover.
1572 Imaginary Numbers Clifford A. Pickover.
1608 Telescope Clifford A. Pickover.
1609 Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion Clifford A. Pickover.
1614 Logarithms Clifford A. Pickover.
1620 Scientific Method Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1621 Slide Rule Clifford A. Pickover.
1628 Circulatory System Clifford A. Pickover.
1637 Descartes’ La Géométrie Clifford A. Pickover.
1638 Acceleration of Falling Objects Clifford A. Pickover.
1639 Projective Geometry Clifford A. Pickover.
1654 Pascal’s Triangle Clifford A. Pickover.
1660 Von Guericke’s Electrostatic Generator Clifford A. Pickover.
1665 Development of Modern Calculus Clifford A. Pickover.
1665 Micrographia Clifford A. Pickover.
1668 Refuting Spontaneous Generation Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1672 Measuring the Solar System Clifford A. Pickover.
1672 Newton’s Prism Clifford A. Pickover.
1678 Discovery of Sperm Clifford A. Pickover.
1683 Zoo Within Us Clifford A. Pickover.
1687 Newton as Inspiration Clifford A. Pickover.
1687 Newton’s Laws of Motion and Gravitation Clifford A. Pickover.
1713 Law of Large Numbers Clifford A. Pickover.
1727 Euler’s Number, e Clifford A. Pickover.
1733 Normal Distribution Curve Clifford A. Pickover.
1735 Linnaean Classification of Species Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1738 Bernoulli’s Law of Fluid Dynamics Clifford A. Pickover.
1760 Artificial Selection (Selective Breeding) Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1761 Bayes’ Theorem Clifford A. Pickover.
1761 Causes of Cancer Clifford A. Pickover.
1761 Morgagni’s “Cries of Suffering Organs” Clifford A. Pickover.
1783 Black Holes Clifford A. Pickover.
1785 Coulomb’s Law of Electrostatics Clifford A. Pickover.
1797 Fundamental Theorem of Algebra Clifford A. Pickover.
1798 Smallpox Vaccine Clifford A. Pickover.
1800 Battery Clifford A. Pickover.
1800 High-Pressure Steam Engine Marshall Brain.
1801 Wave Nature of Light Clifford A. Pickover.
1807 Fourier Series Clifford A. Pickover.
1808 Atomic Theory Clifford A. Pickover.
1812 Laplace’s Théorie Analytique des Probabilités Clifford A. Pickover.
1822 Babbage Mechanical Computer Clifford A. Pickover.
1824 Carnot Engine Clifford A. Pickover.
1824 Greenhouse Effect Clifford A. Pickover.
1825 Ampère’s Law of Electromagnetism Clifford A. Pickover.
1827 Brownian Motion Clifford A. Pickover.
1828 Germ-Layer Theory of Development Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1829 Blood Transfusion Clifford A. Pickover.
1829 Non-Euclidean Geometry Clifford A. Pickover.
1831 Cell Nucleus Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1831 Darwin and the Voyages of the Beagle Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1831 Faraday’s Laws of Induction Clifford A. Pickover.
1836 Fossil Record and Evolution Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1837 Nitrogen Cycle and Plant Chemistry Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1837 Telegraph System Marshall Brain.
1839 Daguerreotype Derek B. Lowe.
1839 Rubber Derek B. Lowe.
1841 Fiber Optics Clifford A. Pickover.
1842 General Anesthesia Clifford A. Pickover.
1843 Conservation of Energy Clifford A. Pickover.
1844 Transcendental Numbers Clifford A. Pickover.
1847 Semmelweis’s Hand Washing Clifford A. Pickover.
1850 Second Law of Thermodynamics Clifford A. Pickover.
1855 Bessemer Process Marshall Brain.
1855 Cell Division Clifford A. Pickover.
1856 Plastic Marshall Brain.
1858 Möbius Strip Clifford A. Pickover.
1859 Darwin’s Theory of Natural Section Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1859 Ecological Interactions Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1859 Kinetic Theory Clifford A. Pickover.
1859 Riemann Hypothesis Clifford A. Pickover.
1861 Cerebral Localization Clifford A. Pickover.
1861 Maxwell’s Equations Clifford A. Pickover.
1862 Germ Theory of Disease Clifford A. Pickover.
1864 Electromagnetic Spectrum Clifford A. Pickover.
1865 Antiseptics Clifford A. Pickover.
1865 Mendel’s Genetics Clifford A. Pickover.
1869 Periodic Table Derek B. Lowe.
1874 Cantor’s Transfinite Numbers Clifford A. Pickover.
1875 Boltzmann’s Entropy Equation Clifford A. Pickover.
1876 Gibbs Free Energy Derek B. Lowe.
1876 Telephone Marshall Brain.
1878 Enzymes Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1878 Incandescent Light Bulb Clifford A. Pickover.
1878 Power Grid Marshall Brain.
1887 Michelson-Morley Experiment Clifford A. Pickover.
1888 Tesseract Clifford A. Pickover.
1890 Steam Turbine Marshall Brain.
1890 The Principles of Psychology Wade E. Pickren.
1891 Neuron Doctrine Clifford A. Pickover.
1892 Discovery of Viruses Clifford A. Pickover.
1895 X-rays Clifford A. Pickover.
1896 Proof of the Prime Number Theorem Clifford A. Pickover.
1896 Radioactivity Clifford A. Pickover.
1897 Electron Clifford A. Pickover.
1899 Psychoanalysis Clifford A. Pickover.
1900 Blackbody Radiation Law Clifford A. Pickover.
1900 Hilbert’s 23 Problems Clifford A. Pickover.
1902 Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance Clifford A. Pickover.
1903 Wright Brothers’ Airplane Marshall Brain.
1903 Classical Conditioning Wade E. Pickren.
1905 E = mc2 Clifford A. Pickover.
1905 Photoelectric Effect Clifford A. Pickover.
1905 Special Theory of Relativity Clifford A. Pickover.
1908 Internal Combustion Engine Marshall Brain.
1910 Chlorination of Water Clifford A. Pickover.
1910 Main Sequence Jim Bell.
1911 Atomic Nucleus Clifford A. Pickover.
1911 Superconductivity Clifford A. Pickover.
1912 Bragg’s Law of Crystal Diffraction Clifford A. Pickover.
1912 Continental Drift Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1913 Bohr Atom Clifford A. Pickover.
1915 General Theory of Relativity Clifford A. Pickover.
1919 String Theory Clifford A. Pickover.
1920 Hydrogen Bonding Derek B. Lowe.
1920 Radio Station Marshall Brain.
1921 Noether’s Idealtheorie Clifford A. Pickover.
1921 Einstein as Inspiration Clifford A. Pickover.
1924 De Broglie Relation Clifford A. Pickover.
1925 Pauli Exclusion Principle Clifford A. Pickover.
1926 Schrödinger’s Wave Equation Clifford A. Pickover.
1927 Complementarity Principle Clifford A. Pickover.
1927 Food Webs Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1927 Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Clifford A. Pickover.
1927 Insect Dance Language Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1928 Dirac Equation Clifford A. Pickover.
1928 Penicillin Clifford A. Pickover.
1929 Hubble’s Law of Cosmic Expansion Clifford A. Pickover.
1931 Gödel’s Theorem Clifford A. Pickover.
1932 Antimatter Clifford A. Pickover.
1932 Neutron Clifford A. Pickover.
1933 Dark Matter Clifford A. Pickover.
1933 Polyethylene Derek B. Lowe.
1933 Neutron Stars Clifford A. Pickover.
1935 EPR Paradox Clifford A. Pickover.
1935 Schrödinger’s Cat Clifford A. Pickover.
1936 Turing Machines Clifford A. Pickover.
1937 Cellular Respiration Derek B. Lowe.
1937 Superfluids Clifford A. Pickover.
1938 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Clifford A. Pickover.
1941 Doped Silicon Marshall Brain.
1942 Energy from the Nucleus Clifford A. Pickover.
1945 Little Boy Atomic Bomb Clifford A. Pickover.
1945 Uranium Enrichment Marshall Brain.
1946 ENIAC Clifford A. Pickover.
1946 Stellar Nucleosynthesis Clifford A. Pickover.
1947 Hologram Clifford A. Pickover.
1947 Photosynthesis Derek B. Lowe.
1947 Transistor Clifford A. Pickover.
1948 Information Theory Clifford A. Pickover.
1948 Quantum Electrodynamics Clifford A. Pickover.
1948 Randomized Controlled Trials Clifford A. Pickover.
1949 Radiocarbon Dating Clifford A. Pickover.
1949 Time Travel Clifford A. Pickover.
1950 Chess Computer Marshall Brain.
1950 Fermi Paradox Clifford A. Pickover.
1951 HeLa Cells Clifford A. Pickover.
1952 Cellular Automata Clifford A. Pickover.
1952 Miller-Urey Experiment Derek B. Lowe.
1953 DNA Structure Clifford A. Pickover.
1955 Atomic Clocks Clifford A. Pickover.
1955 Birth-Control Pill Clifford A. Pickover.
1955 Placebo Effect Clifford A. Pickover.
1955 Ribosomes Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1956 Parallel Universes Clifford A. Pickover.
1957 Antidepressant Medications Wade E. Pickren.
1957 Space Satellite Marshall Brain.
1958 Central Dogma of Molecular Biology Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1958 Integrated Circuit Clifford A. Pickover.
1959 Structure of Antibodies Clifford A. Pickover.
1960 Laser Clifford A. Pickover.
1961 Cracking the Genetic Code for Protein Biosynthesis Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1961 First Humans in Space Jim Bell.
1961 Green Revolution Marshall Brain.
1961 Standard Model Clifford A. Pickover.
1963 Chaos and the Butterfly Effect Clifford A. Pickover.
1963 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Clifford A. Pickover.
1964 Brain Lateralization Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1964 Quarks Clifford A. Pickover.
1965 Cosmic Microwave Background Clifford A. Pickover.
1966 Dynamic RAM Marshall Brain.
1967 Endosymbiont Theory Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1967 Heart Transplant Clifford A. Pickover.
1967 Saturn V Rocket Marshall Brain.
1969 ARPANET Marshall Brain.
1969 First on the Moon Jim Bell.
1972 Genetic Engineering Marshall Brain.
1975 Feigenbaum Constant Clifford A. Pickover.
1975 Fractals Clifford A. Pickover.
1977 Public-Key Cryptography Clifford A. Pickover.
1978 Theory of Mind Wade E. Pickren.
1979 Gravitational Lensing Jim Bell.
1980 Cosmic Inflation Clifford A. Pickover.
1981 Quantum Computers Clifford A. Pickover.
1982 Artificial Heart Marshall Brain.
1983 Epigenetics Clifford A. Pickover.
1983 Polymerase Chain Reaction Clifford A. Pickover.
1984 Telomerase Clifford A. Pickover.
1984 Theory of Everything Clifford A. Pickover.
1987 Mitochondrial Eve Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1990 Domains of Life Michael C. Gerald with Gloria E. Gerald.
1990 Hubble Telescope Clifford A. Pickover.
1990 World Wide Web Marshall Brain.
1994 Global Positioning System (GPS) Marshall Brain.
1998 Dark Energy Clifford A. Pickover.
1998 International Space Station Jim Bell.
2003 Human Genome Project Clifford A. Pickover.
2004 Spirit and Opportunity on Mars Jim Bell.
2008 Human Cloning Clifford A. Pickover.
2009 Large Hadron Collider Clifford A. Pickover.
2016 Gene Therapy Clifford A. Pickover.
2016 Gravitational Waves Jim Bell.
2017 Proof of the Kepler Conjecture Clifford A. Pickover.
Notes and Further Reading.
About the Contributors.
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