Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. 1. Overview 1
5. 2. Earliest Awareness 8
6. 3. First Astronomy 22
7. 4. The Fountainhead 43
8. 5. Synthesis 51
9. 6. Orb in Orb 62
10. 7. Medieval Europe 74
11. 8. The Copernican Revolution, 1 95
12. 9. The Copernican Revolution, 2 111
13. 10. Galileo Galilei 126
14. 11. Newtonian Synthesis 147
15. 12. Widening Horizons: Einstein 166
16. 13. General Theory of Relativity 175
17. 14. Primeval Atom 193
18. 15. Gravitational Collapse 216
19. Epilogue 236
20. Appendix. Experimental Tests of Special and General Relativity 243
21. Notes 247
22. Bibliography 267
23. Index 277