Introduction: The Moment of Transition --
Measuring the World: Eratosthenes' Measurement of the Earth's Circumference --
Interlude: Why Science Is Beautiful --
Dropping the Ball: The Legend of the Leaning Tower --
Interlude: Experiments and Demonstrations --
The Alpha Experiment: Galileo and the Inclined Plane --
Interlude: The Newton-Beethoven Comparison --
Experimentum Crucis: Newton's Decomposition of Sunlight with Prisms --
Interlude: Does Science Destroy Beauty? --
Weighing the World: Cavendish's Austere Experiment --
Interlude: Integrating Science and Popular Culture --
Light a Wave: Young's Lucid Analogy --
Interlude: Science and Metaphor --
Seeing the Earth Rotate: Foucault's Sublime Pendulum --
Interlude: Science and the Sublime --
Seeing the Electron: Millikan's Oil-Drop Experiment --
Interlude: Perception in Science --
Dawning Beauty: Rutherford's Discovery of the Atomic Nucleus --
Interlude: Artistry in Science --
The Only Mystery: The Quantum Interference of Single Electrons --
Conclusion: Can Science Still Be Beautiful?.
