From the Book - Third edition.
Introduction: The guiding themes
Part I. Origins to the End of Antiquity. Humankind emerges
Part II. Thinking and Doing among the World's Peoples. The enduring East
Indus, Ganges, and beyond
Part III. Europe and the Solar System. Plows, stirrups, guns, and plagues
Copernicus incites a revolution
The crime and punishment of Galileo Galilei
"God said, 'Let Newton be!' "
Part IV. Science, Technology, and Industrial Civilization. Textiles, timber, coal, and steam
Legacies of revolution : from Newton to Einstein
The bomb, the Internet and the genome
Afterword: The medium of history.
Humankind emerges: tools and toolmakers
Thinking and Doing Among the World's Peoples
Indus, Ganges, and beyond
Europe and the Solar System
Plows, stirrups, guns, and plagues
Copernicus incites a revolution
The crime and punishment of Galileo Galilei
"God said, 'let Newton be!'"
Science and Industrial Civilization
Timber, coal, cloth, and steam
Humankind emerges: tools and toolmakers
Thinking and doing among the world's peoples
Indus, Ganges, and beyond
Plows, stirrups, guns, and plagues
Copernicus incites a revolution
Crime and punishment of Galileo Galilei
"God said, 'Let Newton be!'"
Road to modern science: pure and applied
Applied science and technology today.
