How to use this book -- Introductions -- 1. Acceleration -- With an excerpt from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding media -- Edward Hopper's Nighthawks -- Suggested readings by Larry Gonick & Art Huffman, James Gleick, Daniel Keyes -- 2. Angle -- With an excerpt from Hayden White's Tropics of discourse -- Paul Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire -- Suggested reading by Calvin Clawson, Stan Gibilisco, Ian Stewart -- 3. Angular velocity -- With an excerpt from Beowulf -- Alfred Stieglitz's Equivalent -- Suggested readings by Timothy Ferris, Kingfisher Publications, Scientific American -- 4. Antimatter -- With excerpts from Gary Zukav's The dancing Wu Li masters and H.G. Wells' The war of the worlds -- Henri Matisse's Venus -- Suggested readings by Gordon Fraser, Brian Greene -- Suggested film by Joseph McMaster -- 5. Chaos -- With an excerpt from Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's The gulag archipelago -- Paolo Uccello's The battle of San Romano -- Suggested readings by James Gleick, Benoit Mandelbrot, John Briggs -- 6. Color -- With an excerpt from Vincent Van Gogh's Dear Theo -- Raphael's Madonna del Granduca -- Suggested readings by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Margaret Livingston, Jeanne Heifetz --

7. Electricity -- g With an excerpt from Benjamin Franklin's The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- John Sloan's The city from Greenwich Village -- Suggested readings by Martin Uman, Paul Horowitz & Winfield Hill, Robert Becker & Gary Selden -- 8. Energy -- With an excerpt from Daniel C. Dennett's Consciousness explained -- Gustav Klimt's The kiss -- Suggested readings by Helen Caldicott, Robert March -- 9. Entropy -- With excerpts from Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" -- Leonardo Da Vinci's The last supper -- Suggested readings by Ian Stewart, Rudolf Arnheim, Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton, & Matthew Sands -- 10. Equation -- With an excerpt from Aristotle's The categories : on interpretation : prior analytics -- Piet Mondrian's Composition in color B, 1917 -- Suggested readings by Richard Friedberg, Albrecht Fölsing, Martin Gardner -- 11. Field -- With an excerpt from William Faulkner's The sound and the fury -- Helen Frankenthaler's Madame Matisse -- Suggested readings by Roger Penrose, Albert László Barabási, Fritjof Capra --

12. Force -- With an excerpt from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh -- Pablo Picasso's The tragedy -- Suggested readings by I. Bernard Cohen & Richard Westfall, Sir Isaac Newton, T.L. Heath -- 13. Friction -- With an excerpt from Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists : volume 1 -- Paul Gauguin's Vairumati -- Suggested readings by Bertrand Russell, David Lind & Scott Sanders, Sandor Nagyszalanczy, Robert Ehrlich -- 14. Gravity -- With an excerpt from Ernest Becker's The denial of death -- Giotto's The lamentation -- Suggested readings by Steven Weinberg, Alan Lightman, John Archibald Wheeler -- 15. Heat -- With an excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's Walden and other writings -- Georges de la Tour's The repentant Magdalen - Suggested readings by Ross Gelbspan, Gino Segrè, Hans Christian Von Baeyer -- 16. Image -- With excerpts from Trinh T. Minh-Ha's Woman, native, other and Edward O. Wilson's On human nature -- The falling cow panel by Unknown -- Suggested readings by Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, & Brian Larkin, Michel Foucault, John Berger -- 17. Light -- With an excerpt from The letters of Abelard and Heloise -- Marc Chagall's An angel -- Suggested readings by James Burke, Richard Feynman -- 18. Mass -- With an excerpt from Albert Einstein & Leopold Infeld's The evolution of physics -- Michaelangelo Buonarroti's Pieta -- Suggested readings by Lewis Mumford, Max Jammer -- Suggested film by MacGillivray Freeman films --

19. Measurement -- With an excerpt from Mircea Eliade's "Time and eternity in Indian thought" -- Canaletto's The grand canal from Carità to Bacino di S. Marco -- Suggested readings by Alex Hebra, David Bourg, Lee Smolin, Barry Zimmerman & David Zimmerman -- 20. Momentum -- With excerpts from Lewis Hyde's The gift and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America -- Panel with striding lion by Unknown -- Suggested readings by Noam Chomsky, Fritjof Capra -- 21. Motion -- With an excerpt from Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged -- Ludwig Van Beethoven's Ninth symphony -- Suggested readings by John Gribbin, Lewis Thomas, Howard Zinn, Sir James Jeans -- 22. Orbit -- With excerpts from Bruno Bettelheim's The uses of enchantment and Fritjof Capra's The web of life -- Mary Cassatt's The bath -- Suggested readings by Leïla Haddad & Alan Cirou, Andrew Mishkin, Adrian Malone -- 23. Particle -- With an excerpt from Marcel Proust's Swann's way -- Georges Seurat's A Sunday on la Grande Jatte -- Suggested readings by John Gribbin, Isaac Asimov, Toby E. Huff -- 24. Position -- With excerpts from Pearl S. Buck's The good Earth and Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of woman -- Alberto Giacometti's Walking man II -- Suggested readings by Dava Sobel, David Rumsey & Edith M. Punt --

25. Power -- With excerpts from John Berger's Ways of seeing and Niccolò Machiavelli's The prince -- Rogier Van Der Weyden's Portrait of a lady -- Suggested readings by Rodney Brooks, Richard Rhodes, Frank Barron, Alfonso Montuori, & Anthea Barron -- 26. Pressure -- With an excerpt from Lewis Mumford's The city in history -- Katsushika Hokusai's The great wave at Kanagawa -- Suggested readings by Craig Hogan, Rachel Carson, Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Frédéric Dumas -- 27. Radiation -- With an excerpt from Albert Camus' The stranger -- Georgia O'Keeffe's Evening star no. VI -- Suggested readings by Nevil Shute, Erik Barnouw -- Suggested film by Daniel Goldberg -- 28. Reflection -- With excerpts from Alice Miller's The drama of the gifted child and Sir James Jeans' Science & music -- Diego Velázquez's Las meninas -- Suggested readings by Walter Benjamin, Gary Waldman -- 29. Refraction -- With an excerpt from Dylan Thomas' Under milk wood -- Annie Mae Young's Blocks and strips -- Suggested readings by Harald Falck-Yttr, Joseph Kasper & Steven Feller, John Alton -- 30. Relativity -- With an excerpt from Pablo Picasso's "Picasso speaks" -- René Magritte's Two mysteries -- Suggested readings by Albert Einstein, George Gamow --

31. Space-time -- With an excerpt from Kahlil Gibran's The prophet and Pablo Picasso's Les demoiselles d'Avignon -- Suggested readings by Janna Levin, Michio Kaku -- Suggested film by Harold Ramis -- 32. Spin -- With an excerpt from Antonio Carlo Jobim's Waters of March -- Vincent Van Gogh's Wheatfield with crows -- Suggested readings by Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann -- 33. Torque -- With excerpts from W.E.B. Du Bois' The souls of black folk and Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril -- Suggested readings by Henry Petroski, Thomas Kuhn, K.C. Cole -- 34. Uncertainty -- With an excerpt from William Shakespeare's Hamlet -- Maurice Denis' The green trees or Beech trees in Kerduel -- Suggested readings by F. David Peat, Douglas Hofstadter -- 35. Vector -- With an excerpt from Homer's The odyssey -- Jacques-Louis David's The death of Marat -- Suggested reading by Julian Barbour, Henry Petroski, Steven Pinker -- 36. Velocity -- With an excerpt from Clause Brown's Manchild in the promised land -- Robert Motherwell's No. 7 (from the Basque suit) -- Suggested readings by Edwin Abbott, Peter Hoffman -- Suggested film by Stacy Peralta --

37. Wave -- With an excerpt from Dziga Vertov's Kino eye -- Jacob Lawrence's The migration of the Negro, Panel 3 -- Suggested readings by Sir James Jeans, George Gamow -- Suggested film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, & Joel Bakan -- 38. Wave/particle duality -- With an excerpt from Gary Zukav's The dancing Wu Li masters -- Joan Miró's Une étoile caresse le sein d'une négresse (peinture-poème) -- Suggested readings by Roland Barthes, Ambrose Bierce, Lao Tzu -- 39. Work -- With excerpts from John Ruskin's The lamp of beauty and Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists : volume 1 -- Emile Bernard's The buckwheat harvest -- Suggested readings by Studs Terkel, Charles Panati -- Appendices -- Index.