Introduction LIVING THINGS Maria Sibylla Merian Six Legs Theophrastus Up-seed-down Nehemiah Grew and Stephen Hales Cut and Dyed Charles Darwin Worm-world John James Audubon Feed the Birds Print a Plant HUMAN BIOLOGY Jan Evangelista Purkyne Print Detective Hermann von Helmholtz Optical Tricks Brain Games Rosalind Franklin DIY DNA A Question of Taste MATERIALS Fritz Klatte Slime Time! Hans Christian Oersted Flight Test Soren Sorenson Chameleon Water Robert Angus Smith AIR Otto von Guericke Under Pressure Daniel Bernoulli Go with the Flow The Wright Brothers Go Fly a Kite! James Clerk Maxwell ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM Electrifying! Benjamin Franklin Sparks in the Dark William Gilbert Make a Magnet #1 Make a Compass Make a Magnet #2 FORCES AND PHYSICS Hypatia of Alexandria Archimedes Agnes Pockels Water Wizardry! Laura Bassi Isaac Newton Bell and Edison Making Waves Frank Whittle LIGHT Ibn Al-Haytham See the Light Isaac Newton Light Fantastic! Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Big it Up! Albert Einstein Micro-light Lord Rayleigh ASTRONOMY Galileo Galilei Star Struck! The Apollo 11 Crew Mad on the Moon! Caroline Herschel Space Oddity Hot Stuff! MATH Katherine Johnson Handy Math Ada Lovelace Math Magic! On a Roll STANDBY FOR STEM Mary Somerville Picture Yourself Mike Barfield Glossary Index.