The Ascent of Man (43 page)

Water, as a power resource 199–200; atomic structure 117–18

Watson, James Dewey (1928),
The Double Helix
296–301

Watt, James (1736–1819) 209, 211, 214

Watts Towers, Los Angeles 94, 314

Wedgwood, Hensleigh (1803–1891) 232

Wedgwood, Josiah (1730–1795)
208–10, 213;
see also
Scientific societies: Lunar Society
and
Darwin

Wedgwood, Josiah (1769–1843) 221

Wells, Herbert George (1866–1946) 319

Wesley, John (1703–1791) 207

Wheat 22, 53, 58, 61

Wheel and axle 62; as a model in cosmology 62; invention of 62; water-199

Wieliczka Salt Mines, near Cracow, Poland 243, 244, 261

Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany (1859–1941)

Wilkinson, John (1728–1808)
275

Withering, William (1741–1799) 210

Wordsworth, William (1770–1850),
The Prelude
180;
Tintern Abbey
217

Wotton, Sir Henry (1568–1639) 154

Wren, Sir Christopher (1632–1723) 177, 187

X-rays 190, 251, 255, 268, 270, 272

Yeats, William Butler (1865–1939),
Sailing to Byzantium
22

Modern and fossil Nyala horns, Musée de L’Homme, Paris (Yves Coppens);

The Taung child’s
skull, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Alan R. Hughes, permission of Prof. P. V. Tobias);

Finger and thumb bones of
Australopithecus
, Mary Waldron;

Computer graphic display of stages in evolution of the head, BBC;

Rock painting, Erwin O. Christensen, by courtesy of Bonanza Books;

Recumbent bison, Altamira, Michael Holford;

Jericho skull, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford;

The tower at Jericho tel, Dave Brinicombe;

Carpenter, National Museum, Copenhagen;

Clay treaty nail, The Trustees of the British Museum;

Baker’s oven, The Trustees of the British Museum;

Carpenters at work with a bow-lathe, The British Library, Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections;

Greek vase painting, The Trustees of the British Museum;

Inca masonry at Machu Picchu, H. Ubbelohde Doering;

The Great Mosque, Cordoba, Conway Library, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Photograph by A. F. Kersting;

Masons at work, 13th century, from the Book of St Alban’s, The Board of Trinity College Dublin;

top left: Mask of an Achaean king, The Art Archive / Alamy

top right: Gold dinar of Khusrau II, The Trustees of the British Museum;

bottom left: Mochica puma, Museos ‘Oro del Perú’, ‘Armas
del Mundo’, Fundación Miguel Mujica Gallo;

middle right: Cast gold badge, Roynon Raikes / Victoria and Albert Museum, London;

bottom right: Central input receiver in a pocket calculator, Paul Brierly;

The furnace of the body, by Paracelsus, Wellcome Library, London;

Earth, air and fire, by Paracelsus, S. Karger;

Illustrations of atoms, BBC;

Blind harpist, SSPL via Getty Images;

Chinese
block print of Pythagoras’ theorem, The British Library Board (shelfmark Or.15378);

Arabic version of Pythagoras’ theorem, The British Library Board (shelfmark add.23387, f.28);

Illustration of architectural symmetry, BBC;

Uccello’s perspective analysis of a chalice, Gabinetto dei Disegni e Stampe, Uffizi, Florence, Italy / Alinari;

Pages from
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
, World History
Archive / Alamy;

Halley’s letter to Newton of 29 June 1686, by kind permission of the Provost and Scholars of King’s College Cambridge;

Computer graphic of the inversion of a sphere, BBC;

A lightning conductor, from the Historical and Interpretive Collections of The Franklin Institute, Inc., Philadelphia, PA;

A Wilkinson token, The Trustees of the British Museum;

An elevator platform, BBC;

Charles Darwin, akg-images;

Dmitri Mendeleev in his last years, Ria Novosti / Science Photo Library;

Dmitri Mendeleev in his last years, Novosti Press Agency;

Illustration of Mendeleev’s Patience, BBC;

An early draft of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table, Interfoto / Alamy;

Exponential graphite-uranium pile, photo courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory;

Röntgen’s original X-ray plate, Deutsches
Museum, Munich;

X-ray diffraction pattern of a crystal of DNA, King’s College London;

Illustration of the Gaussian curve, BBC;

Enrico Fermi, photo courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory;

The scientists’ letter to President Roosevelt, Argonne National Laboratory, by courtesy of Franklin D. Roosevelt Library;

Gregor Mendel in 1865, Science Photo Library;

Large chromosomes of onion skin cells,
Brian Bracegirdle;

Andrea Pisano, ‘The Creation of Eve’, akg-images / Orsi Battaglini;

Cells of spirogyra, Arthur M. Siegelman;

Leonardo, ‘Child in Womb’, Dennis Hallinan / Alamy;

The author at home with Taung cast, D. K. Miller, Salk Institute;

Dürer, ‘Self-Portrait’, Lehman Collection, New York

The old city of Jerusalem, Jon Arnold Images Ltd/Alamy