Basic Calculus: from Archimedes to Newton to its role in science by 
Critical Appraisal of Physical Science As a Human Enterprise by
Introduction
Quantitative imperative vs the imperative of presuppositions
Understanding scientific progress: From Duhem to Lakatos
Kinetic theory: Maxwell’s Presuppositions
Periodic table of the chemical elements: From Mendeleev to Moseley
Foundations of modern atomic theory: Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr
Determination of the elementary electrical charge: Millikan and Ehrenhaft
Paradox of the photoelectric effect: Einstein and Millikan
Bending of light in the 1919 eclipse experiments: Einstein and Eddington
Lewis’s covalent bond: From transfer of electrons to sharing of electrons
Quantum mechanics: From Bohr to Bohm
Wave-particle duality: De Broglie, Einstein and Schrödinger
Searching for quarks: Perl’s philosophy of speculative experiments
Conclusion: Inductive method as a chimera
Great Physicists: the life and times of leading physicists from Galileo to Hawking by
I. Mechanics
Historical Synopsis
How the Heavens Go Galileo Galilei
A Man Obsessed Isaac Newton
II Thermodynamics
Historical Synopsis
A Tale of Two Revolutions Sadi Carnot
On the Dark Side Robert Mayer
A Holy Undertaking James Joule
Unities and a Unifier Hermann Helmholtz
The Scientist as Virtuoso William Thomson
The Road to Entropy Rudolf Clausius
The Greatest Simplicity Willard Gibbs
The Last Law Walther Nernst
III. Electromagnetism
Historical Synopsis
A Force of Nature Michael Faraday
The Scientist as Magician James ClerkMaxwell
IV. Statistical Mechanics
Historical Synopsis
Molecules and Entropy Ludwig Boltzmann
V. Relativity
Historical Synopsis
Adventure in Thought Albert Einstein
VI. Quantum Mechanics
Historical Synopsis
Reluctant Revolutionary Max Planck
Science by Conversation Niels Bohr
The Scientist as Critic Wolfgang Pauli
Matrix Mechanics Werner Heisenberg
Wave Mechanics Erwin Schrodinger and Louis de Broglie
VII. Nuclear Physics
Historical Synopsis
Opening Doors Marie Curie
On the Crest of a Wave Ernest Rutherford
Physics and Friendships Lise Meitner
Complete Physicist Enrico Fermi
VIII. Particle Physics
Historical Synopsis
What Do You Care? Richard Feynman
Telling the Tale of the Quarks Murray Gell-Mann
IX. Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Cosmology
Historical Synopsis
Beyond the Galaxy Edwin Hubble
Ideal Scholar Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Affliction, Fame, and Fortune Stephen Hawking
Chronology of the Main Events
Journey Through Genius: the great theorems of mathematics by 
Mathematical Lives: Protagonists of the Twentieth Century From Hilbert to Wiles by
Preface.- Hilbert’s Problems. A Research Program for Future Generations: U.Bottazzini.-The Way We Were. The Protagonists of the “Italian Spring” in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century: G.Bolondi et al.- Intermezzo: Verlaine and Poincaré from Etudes littéraires : P.Valéry.- B.Russell. Paradoxes and Other Enigmas: G.Rigamonti.- G.H.Hardy. A Brilliant Mind: R.Lucchetti.- E.Noether. The Mother of Algebra: A.Brigaglia.- Intermezzo: Carciopholus romanus from Furor mathematicus: L.Sinisgalli.- P.A.M.Dirac. The Search for Mathematical Beauty: F.La Teana.- The Theoretical Intelligence and Pratic Vision of J. von Neumann: R.Lucchetti.- K.Gödel. Completeness and Incompleteness: P.Odifreddi.- Intermezzo: In Homage to Gödel: H.M.Enzensberger.- R.Musil. The Audacity of Intelligence: C.Bartocci.- The Life, Death and Miracles of Alan Mathison Turing: S.Termini.- R.Caccioppoli. Naples, Fascism and the Post-War Period: A.Guerraggio.- B. de Finetti. The Foundations of Probability: D.M.Cifarelli.- A Committed Mathematician: G.I.Bischi.- A.N.Kolmogorov. The Basis of Probability, and More...: G.Boffetta et al.- Bourbaki. A Mathematician from Poldavia: G.Bolondi.- Writing and Mathematics in the work of R.Queneau: A.Ferraro.- J.F.Nash, Jr.. The Myth of Icarus: R.Lucchetti.- E.De Giorgi. Intuition and Rigour: G.Dal Maso.- L.Schwartz. Political Commitment and Mathematical Rigour: A.Guerraggio.- R.Thom. Conflict and Genesis of Forms: R.Betti.- Intermezzo: The Dream: J.L.Borges.- A.Grothendick: Enthusiasm and Creativity. A New Language at the Service of Imagination: L.Barbieri Viale.- G.-C.Rota. Mathematician and Philosopher: D.Senato.- S.Smale. Mathematics and Civil Protest: A.Guerraggio.- M.F. Atiyah. The Deep Reasons for Mathematics: C.Bartocci.- V.I.Arnol’d: M.Pedroni.- Enrico Bombieri: C.Bartocci et al.- M.Gardner: E.Peres.- Intermezzo: The Door of Miracles from Le Modulor: Le Corbusier.- F.W.Lawvere: R.Betti.- An Interview with A.Wiles: C.Bartocci
Philosophers at War: the quarrel between Newton and Leibniz by
1. Introduction
2. Beginnings in Cambridge
3. Newton states his claim: 1685
4. Leibniz encounters Newton: 1672–1676
5. The emergence of the calculus: 1677–1699
6. The outbreak: 1693–1700
7. Open warfare: 1700–1710
8. The philosophical debate
9. Thrust and parry: 1710–1713
10. The dogs of war: 1713–1715
11. War beyond death: 1715–1722
Quirky Sides of Scientists by
Tenacity and Stubbornness: Einstein on Theory and Experiment
Convergence or Coincidence: Ancient Measurements of the Sun and Moon—How Far?
The Rationality of Simplicity: Copernicus on Planetary Motion
The Silence of Scientists: Venus’s Brightness, Earth’s Precession, and the Nebula in Orion
Progress Through Error: Stars and Quasars—How Big, How Far?
The Data Fit the Model but the Model is Wrong: Kepler and the Structure of the Cosmos
Art Illustrates Science: Galileo, a Blemished Moon, and a Parabola of Blood
Ensnared in Circles: Galileo and the Law of Projectile Motion
Aesthetics and Holism: Newton on Light, Color, and Music
Missing One’s Own Discovery Newton and the First Idea of an Artificial Satellite
A Change of Mind: Newton and the Comet(s?) of 1680 and 1681
A Well-Nigh Discovery: Einstein and the Expanding Universe.
Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists by 
Remarkable Mathematicians by
1. From Euler to Legendre
2. From Fourier to Cauchy
3. From Abel to Grassmann
4. From Kummer to Cayley
5. From Hermite to Lie
6. From Cantor to Hilbert
7. From Moore to Takagi
From Hardy to Lefschetz
9. From Birkhoff to Alexander
10. From Banach to von Neumann
Euler As Physicist by
The Predecessors: Descartes, Newton and Leibniz
Newton and Leibniz on Time, Space and Forces
Newton and Leibniz on the Foundation of the Calculus
Euler’s Program for Mechanics
The Foundation of the Calculus
Euler’s Early Relativistic Theory
Euler’s Wirksamkeit, Helmholtz’s Treatment of Energy Law and Beyond
Euler’s Mechanics and Schrödinger’s Quantum Mechanics
Between Theory and Observations: Tobias Mayer's Explorations of Lunar Motion, 1751-1755 by 
