Beskrivelse
INDHOLD: Uncommon sense. – Cosmos and what’s out there? – The court of the emperor. – The irascible Dane Tycho Brahe. – Spherical harmony. – Circles witin circles. – The poor mathematician. – The Polish canon. – Mysteries of the universe. – Kepler’s geometric rules. – Meeting of minds. – 95 theses. – Kepler’s laws. – Dutch glasses. – Perfect vision. – The trial. – Father of science. – Latitude and longitude. – The bet. – Gravity. – Newton’laws of motion. – Follow the money. – Big bang. – Einstein. – Uncertainty. – Matter. What is the world made of? – Atoms. – Inside the atom. – The laughing philosopher. – Alchemy. – The 17th century. – Making phospoherus. – The chemical revolution. – How to make a canon. – Prietley’s “Airss”. – The dinner. – Balloon wars , gas wars. – Splitting matter. – The Hindenburg disaster. – The revolution. – The romantic chemist. – The elements and the periodic table. – How malaria enters the blood. – Things of thought. – Mysterious rays. – The atom. – Fly in a cathedral. – Splitting the atom. – Semiconductors. – Life. How did we get here? – Practical plants. – Collectors. – Classification. – Systema natura. – How fossil form. – Strata Smith. – Building skeletons. – Extinction. – How old? – Hot rocks. – Deep time. – Vestiges of progress. – Long necks. – Continental jigsaw. – Cold war clues. – Water world. – Dutch wind. – Perpetual motion. – The lunar men. – Electrickery. – Steam. – Watt’s invention. – The first steam car. – Patent power. – Age of steam. – Victorian efficiency. – Schocking fish. – Information flow. – Power struggle and electricity. – Radioactive magic. – Body. What is the secret of life? – The anatomists. – Chinese medicine. – Dathly dissections. – The body is a machine. – Islamic medicine. – The experimentalists. – Birth of chemistry. – Hormone heaven. – The cell. – DNA makes protein. – Animalcules. – Electricity in the body. – Dath by doctor. – Inside the cell. – DNA comes of age. – What is DNA? – The secret of life. – Mutation. – Mind. Who we are. – Think like an Egyptian. – The brain comes to life. – Probing the dead and the living. – Trepanning and earliest brain surgery. – Into the dark. – Witches, ergot and LSD. – A new hope. – The brain revealed. – Tourette syndrome. – What lies beneath. – Bits and pieces. – Psychosurgery. – Pavlov’s dogs. – And beyond. – Further reading. – Index. – – Indbundet og med omslag. – Illustreret. – 288 sider. – Pænt eksemplar.