Introduction |
A Long Distraction / Chapter 1: |
Wishing Well / Chapter 2: |
Cymro's Problem / Chapter 3: |
The Heat of Ages / Chapter 4: |
Terricola's Questions / Chapter 5: |
Flamsteed's Well / Chapter 6: |
Airy Underground / Chapter 7: |
A Mind's Eye View / Chapter 8: |
Tik-Tok's Tumble / Chapter 9: |
Eratosthenes's Well / Chapter 10: |
Aristotle's Stop and the Merton Calculators / Chapter 11: |
Galileo's Constant Cannonball / Chapter 12: |
Hooke's Bullet and Newton's Cannon / Chapter 13: |
Newton's Canals / Chapter 14: |
Halley's Hollow Earth / Chapter 15: |
Dr. Akakia's Diatribe and Euler's Miracle / Chapter 16: |
Collignon's Slant / Chapter 17: |
Fastest Descent / Chapter 18: |
The Kola Pin-Prick and the Iron Blob / Chapter 19: |
A Black Hole Falling / Chapter 20: |
The Elephant in the Room / Chapter 21: |
First and Last Thoughts / Chapter 22: |
Appendix: Mathematical Details |
Notes and Selected References |
Index |
Introduction |
A Long Distraction / Chapter 1: |
Wishing Well / Chapter 2: |
Cymro's Problem / Chapter 3: |
The Heat of Ages / Chapter 4: |
Terricola's Questions / Chapter 5: |