Makers of Western Science

Todd Timmons is professor of history at the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith, where he has taught for more than 20 years. His interests cover a broad spectrum in the history of science, technology, and mathematics.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      Introduction. Science in the Ancient and Medieval World      1. The Copernican Revolution      2. Galileo: Astronomy, the Birth of Modern Physics, and Science’s Battle with the Church      3. Copernicus Perfected? Kepler and Planetary Orbits      4. Gilbert, Harvey, and the Experimental Method      5. Descartes, Boyle, and the Mechanical Philosophy      6. Linnaeus, Buffon and Eighteenth Century Natural History      7. Newton and the Pinnacle of the Scientific Revolution      8. Lavoisier, Dalton, and the Birth of Modern Chemistry      9. From Franklin to Faraday: Developments in the Science of Electricity      10. Paradigm Shift: Darwin and Natural Selection      11. Laplace to Galton: Uncertainty in the Physical and Social Sciences      12. Einstein, Bohr, and Twentieth-Century Physics      13. From the Individual to the Collective: Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the Emergence of “Big Science”      14. Genetics, Germ Theory, and DNA: The Work of Mendel, Pasteur, Watson and Crick      Index

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