Drawing Physics: 2,600 Years of Discovery From Thales to Higgs (MIT Press)

Antiquity
 Triangulation (600 BCE) --
Pythagorean monochord (500 BCE) --
Phases of the moon (448 BCE) --
Empedocles discovers air (450 BCE) --
Aristotle\'s universe (350 BCE) --
Relative distance of sun and moon (280 BCE) --
Archimedes\' balance (250 BCE) --
Archimedes\' principle (250 BCE) --
The size of the earth (225 BCE) --
Middle Ages
 Philoponus on free fall (550 CE) --
The optics of vision (1020 CE) --
Oresme\'s triangle --
Leonardo and earthshine --
Early Modern Period
 The Copernican cosmos --
The impossibility of perpetual motion --
Snell\'s law --
The mountains on the moon --
The moons of Jupiter --
Kepler\'s laws of planetary motion --
Galileo on free fall --
Galileo on projectile motion --
Scaling and similitude --
The weight of air --
Boyle\'s law --
Newton\'s theory of color --
Free-body diagrams --
Newton\'s cradle --
Newtonian trajectories --
Huygens\' principle --
Bernoulli\'s principle --
Electrostatics --
Nineteenth Century
 Young\'s double slit --
Oersted\'s demonstration --
Carnot\'s simplest heat engine --
Joules\'s apparatus --
Faraday\'s lines of force --
Maxwell\'s electromagnetic waves --
Twentieth Century and Beyond
 Photoelectric effect --
Brownian motion --
Rutherford\'s gold foil experiment --
Bohr\'s hydrogen atom --
X-rays and crystals --
General relativity --
Compton scattering --
Matter waves --
The expanding universe (1927-29) --
The neutrino and conservation of energy --
Discovering the neutron --
Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion --
Global greenhouse effect --
Higgs boson (2012).