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• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Heritage of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• Ancient Middle Eastern and Greek Astronomy
• The Almagest
• Greek Physics
• Islamic and Medieval Science
• Chapter 2: The Scientific Revolution
• Astronomy
• Galileo’s Telescopic Discoveries
• Physics
• Mechanics
• Optics
• Chemistry
• Chapter 3: Science from the Enlightenment to the 20th Century
• Celestial Mechanics and Astronomy
• Impact of Newtonian Theory
• The Three-Body Problem
• New Discoveries
• Developments in Optics
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Faraday’s Law of Induction
• Changes in Chemistry
• Chapter 4: Developments and Trends of the 20th Century
• Advances in Astronomy
• The Big-Bang Model
• Evolution of Stars and Formation of Chemical Elements
• Solar-System Astronomy
• A Revolution in Physics
• Radioactivity and the Transmutation of Elements
• The Nucleus
• Einstein’s 1905 Trilogy
• Quantum Mechanics
• The Schrödinger Equation
• Progress in Chemistry
• Chapter 5: Physical Science in the 21st Century
• Dark Matter and Dark Energy
• Large Hadron Collider
• Higgs Boson
• Gravitational Waves
• Convergence
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• For More Information
• For Further Reading
• Index
• Back Cover