Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION. The Guiding Themes -- PART I. From Ape to Alexander -- CHAPTER 1. Humankind Emerges: Tools and Toolmakers -- CHAPTER 2. The Reign of the Farmer -- CHAPTER 3. Pharaohs and Engineers -- CHAPTER 4. Greeks Bearing Gifts -- CHAPTER 5. Alexandria and After -- PART II. Thinking and Doing among the World's Peoples -- CHAPTER 6. The Enduring East -- CHAPTER 7. The Middle Kingdom -- CHAPTER 8. Indus, Ganges, and Beyond -- CHAPTER 9. The New World -- PART III. Europe and the Solar System -- CHAPTER 10. Plows, Stirrups, Guns, and Plagues -- CHAPTER 11. Copernicus Incites a Revolution -- CHAPTER 12. The Crime and Punishment of Galileo Galilei -- CHAPTER 13. "God said, 'Let Newton be!'" -- PART IV. Science and Industrial Civilization -- CHAPTER 14. Timber, Coal, Cloth, and Steam -- CHAPTER 15. Legacies of Revolution -- CHAPTER 16. Life Itself -- CHAPTER 17. Toolmakers Take Command -- CHAPTER 18. The New Aristotelians -- CHAPTER 19. The Bomb and the Genome -- CHAPTER 20. Under Today's Pharaohs -- CONCLUSION. The Medium of History -- Guide to Resources -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.