Part 1: Prelude: Of Stars and Atoms Ch 1: The Way of Science: Experience and Reason Ch 2: Atoms: The Nature of Things Part 2: The Newtonian Universe: A Clockwork Kingdom Ch 3: How Things Move: Galileo Asks the Right Questions Ch 4: Why Things Move as They Do Ch 5: Newton's Universe Part 3: Transition to the New Physics Ch 6: Conservation of Energy: You Can't Get Ahead Ch 7: Second Law of Thermodynamics: and you Can't Even Break Even Ch 8: Light and Electromagnetism Ch 9: Electromagnetism Radiation and Global Climate Change Part 4: The Post-Newtonian Universe: The Observer Intrudes Ch 10: The Special Theory of Relativity Ch 11: The General Theory of Relativity and the New Cosmology Ch 12: The Quantum Idea Ch 13: The Quantum Universe Part 5: Within the Atom: Fire of the Nucleus, Fire of the Sun Ch 14: The Nucleus and Radioactivity: An New Force Ch 15: Fusion and Fission: and a New Energy Ch 16: The Energy Challenge Ch 17: Quantum Fields: Relativity Meets the Quantum.