INDEX 345
Bouguer, Pierre 102
Bouvard, Alexis 87
Boveri, Theodor 224–25, 271, 279
Boyle, Robert 14, 21, 32, 46–49, 76, 78,
176
Bradley, James 58
Bragg, Sir Lawrence 2 78
Brahe, Tycho 32, 39, 40–41, 59
Brahmagupta 19, 331
Brand, Hennig 332
Brandt, Georges 114
branes 310, 312, 313
Branly, Édouard 336
Branson, Herman 280
Brongniart, Alexandre 55, 115
Brout, Robert 298, 299
Brown, Robert 46, 104, 139
Bruni, Giordano 284
buckeyballs 321
Buckland, William 129
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de
72, 73, 98–99, 100, 333
butterfly effect 296–97
C
Callendar, Guy 294
camera obscura 29
Camerarius, Rudolph 104
cancer 186, 193, 195, 321
Cannizzaro, Stanislao 162, 176
carbon compounds 163–65, 256–58, 257
carbon dioxide 72, 76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 85,
257, 258, 268, 294–95
carbon-14 194–95
carbon-60/carbon-70 320–21
Carlisle, Anthony 92, 95
Carnot, Sadi 122, 138, 334
Carson, Rachel 132, 134, 135
Cassini, Giovanni 58, 59
cathode rays 186–87, 209, 304
Cavendish, Henry 72, 76, 78–9, 82, 88,
89, 92, 95, 102, 188
cells 54, 56, 170, 322,323
division 224, 278–79, 300, 301
symbiosis 300–01
Cepheid variable stars 239–40, 241
Cesalpino, Andrea 60
Chadwick, James 192, 193, 213, 304
Chamberland, Charles 197
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan 201,
248 , 314
chaos theory 296–97, 316
Chargaff, Edwin 281
Charles, Jacques 78
Charpentier, Jean de 128
Châtelet, Émilie du 138
Chatton, Edouard 300
Chew, Geoffrey 310
China, ancient 18–19, 26–29
chloroplasts 85, 300, 301
chromosomes 15, 168, 170–71, 200,
224–25, 271, 278, 282, 319, 324, 325
chronometers 59
cladistics 74, 75
Clapeyron, Émile 122
Clausius, Rudolph 138
Clements, Frederic 134
climate change 108, 109, 128, 129, 135,
294–95
clocks 18, 19, 32, 51, 59, 89, 216, 221
cloning 15, 269, 326
cluster galaxies 201, 250–51
Cockcroft, John 262, 305
Colladon, Jean-Daniel 335
color charge 272, 307, 311
combustion 14, 72, 79, 82, 83, 84
comets 12, 13, 40–41, 68, 86, 87
compounds 72, 105, 112, 114, 119, 162–65
computer science 15, 252–53, 269,
288–91, 317
condensation 21, 76, 77, 79
conductors, electrical 321
conservation of energy 138
consistent histories 233
continental drift 200, 222–23
Cook, Captain James 52
Copenhagen interpretation 232–33,
234, 235, 285
Copernicus, Nicolaus 14, 26, 32,
34–39, 40, 52, 64, 238
Corey, Robert 280
Coriolis, Gaspard-Gustave de 80, 126
Correns, Carl 168, 170
cosmic dust 320
cosmic microwave background
radiation (CMBR) 242, 244, 245
cosmic rays 304
cosmological constant 216, 243
Coulson, Charles 256
Couper, Archibald 124, 162, 163
covalent bonds 119, 256, 257, 258, 259
Crick, Francis 224, 268, 271, 276–83,
318, 324, 326
Croll, James 128
Crookes, William 186Cruickshank, William 95
CT (computed tomography) scans 187
Ctesibius 18, 19
Curie, Marie (Sklodowska) 109,
190–95, 209, 210
Curie, Pierre 192, 193, 209, 210
Curl, Robert 320, 321
currents
convection 222, 223
ocean 81, 83, 126
Curtis, Heber D. 240
Cuvier, Georges 55, 74, 115, 118, 129, 145
cyclonic patterns 153–54
cystic fibrosis 322, 323D
Daguerre, Louis 334
Dalton, John 14–15, 21, 80, 105, 108,
112–13, 162, 176, 208
dark energy 238, 245, 250, 251
dark matter 15, 201, 245, 250, 251
Darwin, Charles 15, 23, 53, 60, 73,
74, 100, 104, 109, 118, 129, 135,
142–49, 152, 168, 172, 225, 249,
274, 300, 315, 319
Darwin, Erasmus 144, 145
Davy, Humphry 78, 79, 92, 95, 114 , 119,
176
Dawkins, Richard 249, 339
de Bary, Anton 300
de Broglie, Louis 202, 229–30, 232, 233,
234, 272
De Forest, Lee 252
De la Beche, Henry 116, 117
de Sitter, Willem 221, 243
de Vries, Hugo 168, 170, 224
decoherence 284, 285
Delambre, Jean-Baptiste 58
Democritus 21, 105, 112, 208
Descartes, René 1 2, 13, 45, 46, 50, 332
diamonds 257
Dicke, Robert 245
diffraction 50, 51, 187, 229, 232, 256,
279, 280
dimensions, extra 269, 311, 312, 313
dinosaurs 108, 109, 116–17, 172–73
Dirac, Paul 201, 228, 231, 234, 246–47,
248, 269, 272
DNA 75, 171, 172, 269, 274, 300, 301,
318, 319, 322, 324–25