Table of Contents:
“…Prelude : the misfit from Vinci / Leonardo da Vinci -- Going inside the body / Andreas Vesalius -- Galileo and the telescope / Galileo Galilei -- William Harvey and the witches / Geoffrey Keynes -- The hunting spider / Robert Hooke and John Evelyn -- Early blood transfusion / Henry Oldenburg and Thomas Shadwell -- Little animals in water / Antony van Leeuwenhoek -- An apple and colours / Isaac Newton and others -- The little red mouse and the field cricket / Gilbert White -- Two mice discover oxygen / Joseph Priestley -- Discovering Uranus / Alfred Noyes -- The big bang and ** vegetable love / Erasmus Darwin -- Taming the speckled monster / Mary Wortley Montagu and Edward Jenner -- The menace of population / Thomas Malthus -- How the giraffe got its neck / Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, George Bernard Shaw and Richard Wilbur -- Medical studies, Paris 1821 / Hector Berlioz -- The man with a lid on his stomach / William Beaumont -- Those dreadful hammers : Lyell and the new geology / Charles Lyell -- The discovery of worrying / Adam Phillips -- Pictures for the million / Samuel F.B. …”