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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Part One. Founders of Modern Science
6. 1 Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) 3
7. 2 Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) 34
8. 3 Francis Bacon (1561–1626) 59
9. 4 Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) 79
10. 5 Isaac Newton (1643–1727) 102
11. 6 Charles Darwin (1809–1882) 122
12. 7 Albert Einstein (1879–1955) 143
13. 8 Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) 177
14. Part Two. Scientists of our Time
15. 9 Rachel Carson (1907–1964) 197
16. 10 Carl Sagan (1934–1996) 222
17. 11 Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) 249
18. 12 Richard Dawkins (1941–) 268
19. 13 Jane Goodall (1934–) 296
20. 14 Steven Weinberg (1933–) 317
21. 15 John Polkinghorne (1930–) 340
22. 16 Freeman Dyson (1923–) 365
23. 17 Stephen Hawking (1942–) 392
24. 18 Paul Davies (1946–) 412
25. 19 Edward O. Wilson (1929–) 437
26. 20 Stuart A. Kauffman (1939–) 452
27. 21 Ursula Goodenough (1944–) 475
28. Permission Acknowledgments 505
29. Index 513