Your Magickal Cat,9780806520940

Your Magickal Cat

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ISBN13: 9780806520940
ISBN10: 0806520949
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2000-10-01
Publisher(s): Citadel Pr
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Summary

The author of "The Wicca Spellbook" examines in detail the mystical aspects of the domestic feline--from its long-lasting associations with witchcraft and the supernatural to its role as a shamanic totem. Illustrations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
Isaac Newton and the Newtonian Revolution
3(5)
Albert Einstein and Twentieth-Century Science
8(7)
Neils Bohr and the Atom
15(6)
Charles Darwin and Evolution
21(6)
Louis Pasteur and the Germ Theory of Disease
27(6)
Sigmund Freud and Psychology of the Unconscious
33(7)
Galileo Galilei and the New Science
40(5)
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and the Revolution in Chemistry
45(5)
Johannes Kepler and Motion of the Planets
50(5)
Nicolaus Copernicus and the Heliocentric Universe
55(4)
Michael Faraday and the Classical Field Theory
59(5)
James Clerk Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field
64(4)
Claude Bernard and the Founding of Modern Physiology
68(4)
Franz Boas and Modern Anthropology
72(5)
Werner Heisenberg and Quantum Theory
77(5)
Linus Pauling and Twentieth-Century Chemistry
82(6)
Rudolf Virchow and the Cell Doctrine
88(5)
Erwin Schrodinger and Wave Mechanics
93(6)
Ernest Rutherford and the Structure of the Atom
99(5)
Paul Dirac and Quantum Electrodynamics
104(5)
Andreas Vesalius and the New Anatomy
109(5)
Tycho Brahe and the New Astronomy
114(4)
Comte de Buffon and l'Histoire Naturelle
118(4)
Ludwig Boltzmann and Thermodynamics
122(4)
Max Planck and the Quanta
126(4)
Marie Curie and Radioactivity
130(5)
William Herschel and the Discovery of the Heavens
135(4)
Charles Lyell and Modern Geology
139(4)
Pierre Simon de Laplace and Newtonian Mechanics
143(4)
Edwin Hubble and the Modern Telescope
147(5)
Joseph J. Thomson and the Discovery of the Electron
152(4)
Max Born and Quantum Mechanics
156(5)
Francis Crick and Molecular Biology
161(5)
Enrico Fermi and Atomic Physics
166(5)
Leonard Euler and Eighteenth-Century Mathematics
171(3)
Justus Liebig and Nineteenth-Century Chemistry
174(4)
Arthur Eddington and Modern Astronomy
178(5)
William Harvey and Circulation of the Blood
183(4)
Marcello Malpighi and Microscopic Anatomy
187(3)
Christiaan Huygens and the Wave Theory of Light
190(4)
Carl Gauss and Mathematical Genius
194(5)
Albrecht von Haller and Eighteenth-Century Medicine
199(5)
August Kekule and Chemical Structure
204(5)
Robert Koch and Bacteriology
209(5)
Murray Gell-Mann and the Eightfold Way
214(4)
Emil Fischer and Organic Chemistry
218(4)
Dmitri Mendeleev and the Periodic Table of Elements
222(4)
Sheldon Glashow and the Discovery of Charm
226(5)
James Watson and the Structure of DNA
231(5)
John Bardeen and Superconductivity
236(4)
John von Neumann and the Modern Computer
240(6)
Richard Feynman and Quantum Electrodynamics
246(6)
Alfred Wegener and Continental Drift
252(4)
Stephen Hawking and Quantum Cosmology
256(5)
Anton van Leeuwenhoek and the Simple Microscope
261(4)
Max von Laue and X-ray Crystallography
265(4)
Gustav Kirchhoff and Spectroscopy
269(5)
Hans Bethe and the Energy of the Sun
274(5)
Euclid and the Foundations of Mathematics
279(3)
Gregor Mendel and the Laws of Inheritance
282(4)
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and Superconductivity
286(4)
Thomas Hunt Morgan and the Chromosomal Theory of Heredity
290(4)
Hermann von Helmholtz and the Rise of German Science
294(5)
Paul Ehrlich and Chemotherapy
299(4)
Ernst Mayr and Evolutionary Theory
303(5)
Charles Sherrington and Neurophysiology
308(4)
Theodosius Dobzhansky and the Modern Synthesis
312(6)
Max Delbruck and the Bacteriophage
318(5)
Jean Baptiste Lamarck and the Foundations of Biology
323(3)
William Bayliss and Modern Physiology
326(4)
Noam Chomsky and Twentieth-Century Linguistics
330(6)
Frederick Sanger and the Genetic Code
336(5)
Lucretius and Scientific Thinking
341(4)
John Dalton and the Theory of the Atom
345(4)
Louis Victor de Broglie and Wave/Particle Duality
349(4)
Carl Linnaeus and the Binomial Nomenclature
353(4)
Jean Piaget and Child Development
357(5)
George Gaylord Simpson and the Tempo of Evolution
362(5)
Claude Levi-Strauss and Structural Anthropology
367(5)
Lynn Margulis and Symbiosis Theory
372(5)
Karl Landsteiner and the Blood Groups
377(4)
Konrad Lorenz and Ethology
381(5)
Edward O. Wilson and Sociobiology
386(6)
Frederick Gowland Hopkins and Vitamins
392(4)
Gertrude Belle Elion and Pharmacology
396(5)
Hans Selye and the Stress Concept
401(5)
J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Era
406(5)
Edward Teller and the Bomb
411(6)
Willard Libby and Radioactive Dating
417(4)
Ernst Haeckel and the Biogenetic Principle
421(4)
Jonas Salk and Vaccination
425(5)
Emil Kraepelin and Twentieth-Century Psychiatry
430(4)
Trofim Lysenko and Soviet Genetics
434(5)
Francis Galton and Eugenics
439(5)
Alfred Binet and the I.Q. Test
444(5)
Alfred Kinsey and Human Sexuality
449(5)
Alexander Fleming and Penicillin
454(4)
B. F. Skinner and Behaviorism
458(5)
Wilhelm Wundt and the Founding of Psychology
463(4)
Archimedes and the Beginning of Science
467(4)
Appendix: Inexcusable Omissions, Honorable Mentions, and Also-Rans 471(3)
Picture Acknowledgments 474(1)
Source Notes 475(12)
Bibliography 487(9)
Index 496

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