A short history of nearly everything

Systema Naturae (Linnaeus)

Szilard, Leo

T

Taming the Atom (von Baeyer)

Tasmanian tiger

Tattersall, Ian

taxonomy; animal world, categories; class; classification of bacteria; classification of plants; disagreements, arbitration of,; family; field of; genus; humans, classification of; life; Linnaean system; magnitude of classifying; number of taxonomists; order; phylum; primates, classifying; species; works of

Taylor, Frank Bursley

telescope

temperature; Earth’s changes of; Fahrenheit and Celsius

Terrible Lizard (Cadbury)

Theory of the Earth with Proofs and Illustrations, A (Hutton)

thermodynamics; entropy; Gibbs and; laws of; Second Law of

Thomson, J. J.

Thorne, Alan

Thorne, Kip S.

Thorstensen, John

time, general theory of relativity and

Time’s Arrow (Gould)

tin

titanium

Titans of the Deep (film)

Tombaugh, Clyde

Trans-Neptunian Objects

Trefil, James

triangulation.

trilobites,

Trinkaus, Erik

Tryon, Edward P.

tsunami

Tsurutani, Bruce

Turkana, Lake, Kenya

U

ulcers

Uncertainty Principle

U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona

universe: age of; birth of (Big Bang theory); cosmic background radiation; curvature of space; dark energy (vacuum energy, quintessence); dark matter; edge of; emptiness of; end of; expanding; Goldilocks effect; gravity in; inflation theory; ordered self-assembly in; parsec (vs. light-years); planets in, number of; planets, life-sustaining; theory of many universes; size of; visible

uranium; decay rate into lead

Uranus

Urey, Harold

Ussher, James

V

Valery, Paul

Varuna

Venus: conditions on; lack of tectonic activity; transits of

Vermeer, Jan

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chambers)

Vine, Fred

viruses

Vogel, Shawna

volcanoes: Ashfall Fossil Beds, Nebraska, and; Bruneau-Jarbidge, Idaho; climatic consequences,; Deccan Traps; Galeras, Colombia; caldera; hypertrophic pulmonary osteodystrophy; Krakatau, Indonesia; lack of preparedness; predicting; pyroclastic flow; St. Helens, Washington; supervolcanoes, superplumes; Tambora; Unzen, Japan; Vesuvius, Italy; Yellowstone Park

von Baeyer, Hans Christian

Voorhies, Mike

Voyager 1 amp; 2 craft

Vreeland, Russell

W

Walcott, Charles Doolittle

Walker, Alan

Wallace, Alfred Russel

Walsh, Don

water; chemical formula for; fresh; frozen, qualities of; humans, percentage; lake or ocean, length of time in; molecules; molecules, as rain; oceans, percentage of Earth’s water in; seawater; surface tension; weight of, pressure of,. See also oceans