CHAPTER 4 THE MEASURE OF THINGS
“a long and productive career . . .” Sagan and Druyan, p. 52.
“a very specific and precise curve . . .” Feynman, Six Easy Pieces, p. 90.
“Hooke, who was well known . . .” Gjertsen, The Classics of Science, p. 219.
“betwixt my eye and the bone . . .” Quoted by Ferris in Coming of Age in the Milky Way, p. 106.
“told no one about it for twenty-seven years.” Durant and Durant, The Age of Louis XIV, p. 538.
“Even the great German mathematician Gottfried von Leibniz . . .” Durant and Durant, p. 546.
“one of the most inaccessible books ever written . . .” Cropper, The Great Physicists, p. 31.
“proportional to the mass of each . . .” Feynman, p. 69.
“Newton, as was his custom, contributed nothing.” Calder, The Comet Is Coming! p. 39.
“He was to be paid instead . . .” Jardine, Ingenious Pursuits, p. 36.
“within a scantling.” Wilford, The Mapmakers, p. 98.
“The Earth was forty-three kilometers stouter . . .” Asimov, Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos, p. 86.
“Unluckier still was Guillaume Le Gentil . . .” Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, p. 134.
“Mason and Dixon sent a note . . .” Jardine, p. 141.
“born in a coal mine . . .” Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 7, p. 1302.
“For convenience, Hutton had assumed . . .” Jungnickel and McCormmach, Cavendish, p. 449.
“it was Michell to whom he turned . . .” Calder, The Comet Is Coming! p. 71.
“to a ‘degree bordering on disease.’ ” Jungnickel and McCormmach, p. 306.
“talk as it were into vacancy.” Jungnickel and McCormmach, p. 305.
“foreshadowed ‘the work of Kelvin and G. H. Darwin . . . ’ ” Crowther, Scientists of the Industrial Revolution, pp. 214-15.
“two 350-pound lead balls . . .” Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 3, p. 1261.
“six billion trillion metric tons . . .” Economist, “G Whiz,” May 6, 2000, p. 82.
CHAPTER 5 THE STONE-BREAKERS
“Hutton was by all accounts . . .” Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 10, pp. 354-56.
“almost entirely innocent of rhetorical accomplishments . . .” Dean, James Hutton and the History of Geology, p. 18.
“He became a leading member . . .” McPhee, Basin and Range, p. 99.
“quotations from French sources . . .” Gould, Time’s Arrow, p. 66.
“A third volume was so unenticing . . .” Oldroyd, Thinking About the Earth, pp. 96-97.
“Even Charles Lyell . . .” Schneer (ed.), Toward a History of Geology, p. 128.
“In the winter of 1807 . . .” Geological Society papers: A Brief History of the Geological Society of London.
“The members met twice a month . . .” Rudwick, The Great Devonian Controversy, p. 25.
“(As even a Murchison supporter conceded . . . )” Trinkaus and Shipman, The Neandertals, p. 28.
“In 1794, he was implicated . . .” Cadbury, Terrible Lizard, p. 39.
