Science and Sensibility: Nature and the Greeks ; Education in antiquity ; Science and civilization in China ; The Copernican revolution ; The Lisbon earthquake ; Francis Bacon ; Cardano, the gambling scholar ; Isaac Newton ; The Marquis de LaPlace ; James Clerk Maxwell ; William Kingdon Clifford ; Francis Galton ; The Wright Brothers ; Arthur S. Eddington ; Srinivasa Ramanujan ; Einstein ; Freud ; John Maynard Keynes