"Canticle to the cosmos tells the scientific story of the Universe with a feeling for its sacred nature"--Container.

The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationships with the world. This work features the revolutionary view that life creates the universe instead of the other way around.

The publication of Darwin's The Origin of Species in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought. The volume had taken Darwin more than twenty years to publish, in part because he envisioned the storm of controversy it was certain to unleash. Indeed, selling out its first edition on its first day, The Origin of Species revolutionized science, philosophy, and theology. Darwin's reasoned, documented arguments carefully advance his theory...

Explores the history of man's expanding knowledge of the universe, including the most recent celestial discoveries.

"Over the past four billion years of Earth's history, three organisms-cyanobacteria, plants, and humans--have altered the planet in profound ways by harnessing the availability of five key elements. Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus are the most common elements in all forms of life on Earth, and all five circulate between the biotic and abiotic world in biogeochemical cycles. When organisms tap into stores of these elements and change...