AShortHistoryofNearlyEverything_SpecialI.epub

Copyright © 2003, 2005 by Bill Bryson All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.crownpublishing.com BROADWAY BOOKS and the Broadway Books colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc. This edition was originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Transworld Publishers, London, and in the United States by Broadway Books, New York, in 2005. A previous unillustrated edition was first published in hardcover in Great Britain by Transworld Publishers, London, and in the United States by Broadway Books, New York, in 2003. Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file with the Library of Congress. eISBN: 978-0-307-88516-6 v3.1 To Meghan and Chris. Welcome. CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION ONE: LOST IN THE COSMOS 1 How to Build a Universe 2 Welcome to the Solar System 3 The Reverend Evans’s Universe TWO: THE SIZE OF THE EARTH 4 The Measure of Things 5 The Stone-Breakers 6 Science Red in Tooth and Claw 7 Elemental Matters THREE: A NEW AGE DAWNS 8 Einstein’s Universe 9 ......