Man masters nature : twenty-five centuries of science / edited by Roy Porter.

New York : G. Braziller, 1988, ©1987.

233 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

To accompany the BBC radio series Man masters nature first broadcast from spring 1987.

Introduction / Roy Porter -- Aristotle : the theory and practice of science / Geoffrey Lloyd -- Ptolemy : the synthesis of ancient astronomy / John North -- Galileo Galilei : 'modern' science / Colin Ronan -- Johannes Kepler : the new astronomy / Jim Bennett -- William Harvey : the discovery of the circulation of the blood / Andrew Cunningham -- Issac Newton : the mathematical key to nature / A. Rupert Hall -- Joseph Priestley : science, religion and politics in the age of revolution / John Christie -- Antione-Laurent Lavoisier : the chemical revolution / Maurice Crosland -- James Watt : cross-fertilisation between science and industry / Donald Cardwell -- Michael Faraday : the use of pure science / David Knight -- Charles Darwin : solving the problem of organic diversity / John Durant -- Louis Pasteur : in pursuit of the infinitely small / William Bynum -- Albert Einstein : questioning space and time / Clive Kilmister -- Niels Bohr : a world beyond visualisation / John Hendry -- Alan Turing : the mind and the machine / Andrew P. Hodges -- James Watson and Francis Crick : discovering the secret of life / Edward Yoxen.

Includes index and bibliography: p. 217-224.