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Introduction What is an Experiment? What is Beauty?
Section 1 Asking Questions of Nature
Chapter 1 How Does Your Garden Grow?
Van Helmont’s Willow Tree and the Beauty of Quantification
Chapter 2 An Element Compounded
Cavendish’s Water and the Beauty of Detail
The Curies’ Radium and the Beauty of Patience
Rutherford’s Alpha Particles and the Beauty of Elegance
Chapter 5 The Elements Came in One by One
Seaborgium’s Chemistry: Small is Beautiful
Divertissement 1 The Chemical Theatre
Section 2 Posing New Questions
Chapter 6 Molecules Take Shape
Pasteur’s Crystals and the Beauty of Simplicity
Divertissement 2 Myths and Romances
Chapter 7 Life and How To Make It
Urey and Miller’s Prebiotic Chemistry and the Beauty of Imagination
Bartlett’s Xenon Chemistry and the Beauty of Simplemindedness
Section 3 The Art of Making Things
Chapter 9 Nature Rebuilt
Woodward, Vitamin B12 and the Beauty of Economy
