| Reader's Guide |
| Advisory Board |
| Chronology |
| Words to Know |
| Life Science / Volume 1： |
| Chapter Contents |
| Overview |
| Essays |
| Johann Blumenbach and the Classification of Human Races |
| Advances in Cell Theory |
| Birth of the Agricultural Sciences |
| Gregor Mendel Discovers the Basic Laws of Heredity |
| Thomas Malthus and the Study of Population |
| Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution |
| Social Darwinism |
| Louis Pasteur and the Germ Theory |
| The Popularization of Science |
| Neanderthals and the Search for Human Ancestors |
| Biographies |
| John James Laforest Audubon |
| Spencer Fullerton Baird |
| Ernst Haeckel |
| Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Ida Henrietta Hyde |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury |
| Lorenz Oken |
| Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Brief Biographies |
| Research and Activity Ideas |
| For More Information |
| Medicine / Chapter 2： |
| The Development of New Systems of Alternative Medicine |
| Advances in Surgical Techniques |
| The Battle against Tuberculosis |
| Nineteenth Century Biological Theories about Race |
| Medical Beliefs about Women |
| Establishment of Schools for Individuals with Special Needs |
| Nineteenth-Century Advances in Dentistry |
| Advances in the Treatment of Mental Illness |
| Developments in Military Medicine |
| The Rise of Tropical Medicine |
| Creation of the Public Health System |
| Koch's Postulates Are Used to Identify Diseases |
| Clara Barton |
| William Beaumont |
| Elizabeth Blackwell |
| Paul Ehrlich |
| Sigmund Freud |
| Shibasaburo Kitasato |
| Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran |
| Florence Nightingale |
| William Osler |
| Philippe Pinel |
| Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen |
| Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis |
| For more Information |
| Index |
| Mathematics / Volume 2： |
| Early Attempts to Formulate a Mathematical Theory of Electricity |
| Developments in Mathematics Education |
| Advances in the Mathematics of Logic |
| The Rise of Probability Theory |
| Charles Babbage |
| George Boole |
| Augustin-Louis Cauchy |
| Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier |
| Evariste Galois |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss |
| Sophie Germain |
| Felix Klein |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace |
| Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky |
| Jules-Henri Poincare |
| Physical Science / Chapter 4： |
| Development of the Concept of Energy |
| Nineteenth-Century Advances in Electromagnetic Theory |
| Finding Order among the Elements: The Periodic Table |
| Lord Rayleigh's Theory of Sound |
| Discovery of Radioactivity |
| Discovery of the Inert Gases |
| Heinrich Hertz Discovers Radio Waves |
| Charles Lyell Popularizes the Principle of Uniformitarianism |
| Developments in Electrochemistry |
| Discovery of Ice Ages |
| Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel |
| Marie Curie |
| John Dalton |
| Michael Faraday |
| Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac |
| Josiah Willard Gibbs |
| Joseph Henry |
| Caroline Lucretia Herschel |
| Charles Lyell |
| James Clerk Maxwell |
| Technology and Invention / Chapter 5： |
| The Horseless Carriage: Invention of the First Automobiles |
| Revolutions in the Publishing Industry |
| Instant Messaging: The Invention of the Telegraph |
| Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone |
| Capturing Life on Screen: The Invention of Motion Pictures |
| Electricity Powers the Nineteenth Century |
| The Steam-Powered Locomotive Transforms Transportation |
| The Mechanization of Textile Weaving |
| Progress in Food Preservation |
| Advances in the Chemistry of Explosives |
| Charles Goodyear Invents the Process of Vulcanization |
| Nicolas Appert |
| Alexander Graham Bell |
| Karl Friedrich Benz |
| Henry Bessemer |
| Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace |
| Thomas Alva Edison |
| Margaret E. Knight |
| Cyrus Hall McCormick |
| Norbert Rillieux |
| Isaac Merrit Singer |
