1.
Beginning the Journey
2.
Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks
3.
The Presocratics
4.
Plato and the Pythagoreans
5.
Plato's Cosmos
6.
Aristotle's View of the Natural World
7.
Aristotelian Cosmology and Physics
8.
Hellenistic Natural Philosophy
9.
Greek Astronomy From Eudoxus to Ptolemy
10.
The Roman Contributions
11.
Roman Versions of Greek Science and Education
12.
The End of the Classical World
13.
Early Christianity and Science
14.
The Rise of Islam and Islamic Science
15.
Islamic Astronomy, Mathematics, and Optics
16.
Alchemy, Medicine, and Late Islamic Culture
17.
The Latin West Reawakens
18.
Natural Philosophy at School and University
19.
Aristotle and Medieval Scholasticism
20.
The Science of Creation
21.
Science in the Orders
22.
Medieval Latin Alchemy and Astrology
23.
Medieval Physics and Earth Sciences
24.
The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
25.
Renaissance Natural Magic
26.
Copernicus and Calendrical Reform
27.
Renaissance Technology
28.
Tycho, Kepler, and Galileo
29.
The New Physics
30.
Voyages of Discovery and Natural History
31.
Mechanical Philosophy and Revised Atomism
32.
Mechanism and Vitalism
33.
Seventeenth-Century Chemistry
34.
The Force of Isaac Newton
35.
The Rise of Scientific Societies
36.
How Science Develops