Introduction: Telescopes for the Mind xxv --
Part 1 Cosmological Origins --
1 We Have Seen But Few of His Works 2 --
2 Twice into the Same River? 12 --
3 Things of the Universe Are Not Sliced Off with a Hatchet 18 --
4 Atoms and Empty Space 23 --
5 Moving Image of Eternity 31 --
7 He Supposes the Earth to Revolve 43 --
8 A Geometrical Argument 46 --
9 No Erratic or Pointless Movement 50 --
10 Turning the Universe Upside Down 58 --
Part 2 Ptolemy, Middle Earth, Middle Ages --
11 Peculiar Nature of the Universe 68 --
12 Weaknesses of the Hypotheses 75 --
13 Their Peculiar Behavior Confounds Mortals' Minds 78 --
14 We Consider Time a Thing Created 82 --
15 From This Point Hang the Heavens 89 --
16 If a Man Were in the Sky and Could See the Earth Clearly 92 --
17 A Single Universe in Which Each Star Influences Every Other 96 --
Part 3 Copernicus to Newton --
18 Almost Contrary to Common Sense 104 --
19 Poetic Structure of the World 118 --
20 This Art Unfolds the Wisdom of God 122 --
21 A Star Never Seen Before Our Time 128 --
22 This Little Dark Star Wherein We Live 132 --
23 Innumerable Suns, and an Infinite Number of Earths 140 --
24 Neither Known Nor Observed by Anyone Before 145 --
25 Galileo and the Geometrization of Astronomical Space 155 --
26 This Boat Which Is Our Earth 163 --
27 Two Books of God Agree With Each Other 173 --
28 They Hoist the Earth Up and Down Like a Ball 178 --
29 A World in the Moon 184 --
30 A Very Liquid Heaven 191 --
31 Eternal Silence of These Infinite Spaces 195 --
32 This Pendent World 198 --
33 But One Little Family of the Universe 206 --
34 Into the Celestial Spaces 220 --
35 Discernible Ends and Final Causes 229 --
36 Planetarians, and This Small Speck of Dirt 233 --
Part 4 Unfurling Newton's Universe --
37 A Signal of God 240 --
38 Beautiful Pre-established Order 245 --
39 An Event So Glorious to the Newtonian Doctrine of Gravity 250 --
40 A Voice from the Starry Heavens 255 --
41 This Most Surprising Zone of Light 259 --
42 How Fortunate Is This Globe! 265 --
43 To Become Adequately Copernican 272 --
44 Laboratories of the Universe 277 --
45 As Certain as the Planetary Orbits 285 --
46 Intelligence of the Watch-Maker 291 --
47 Must We Then Reject the Infinitude of the Stars? 294 --
48 Great Principle That Governs the Universe 298 --
49 Unfailing Connection and Course of Events 302 --
50 Primordial Particle 307 --
51 Shadow! The Shadow! 312 --
52 Unraveled Starlight 317 --
53 Astronomy Still Young 326 --
Part 5 Universe Re-Imagined --
54 Peculiar Interest of Mars 334 --
55 Cosmical Evolution 342 --
56 Cosmos Without Peer and Without Price 347 --
57 Curved Space and Poetry of the Universe 350 --
58 Man in the Accelerated Chest 356 --
59 It Is Not True That "All Is Relative" 366 --
60 Spacetime Tells Matter How to Move 371 --
61 Architecture of the Celestial Mansions 380 --
62 Quickening Influence of the Universe 385 --
63 You Have Broken Newton's Back 390 --
64 Realm of the Nebulae 394 --
65 Driven to Admit Anti-Chance 401 --
66 Did the Expansion Start from the Beginning? 407 --
67 This Big Bang Idea 411 --
Part 6 Beginnings and Ends --
68 Incomprehensible Magnitude, Unimaginable Darkness 418 --
69 That All-But-Eternal Crimson Twilight 423 --
71 Very Womb of Life 430 --
72 Urge to Trace the History of the Universe 433 --
73 To Transform the Universe on a Cosmological Scale 438 --
74 No Boundary Condition 448 --
75 Prisons of Light 452 --
76 A Very Lumpy Universe 460 --
77 A Cosmic Archipelago 464 --
78 Cosmological Natural Selection 467 --
79 Ultimate Free Lunch 482 --
80 Was There a Big Bang? 488 --
81 What We Cannot See and Yet Know Must Be There 498 --
82 Their Extravagant Smallness 506 --
83 Cosmic Dust-Bunnies 510 --
84 Mystery at the End of the Universe 516 --
85 Do the Heavens Declare? 522.
