Acknowledgements
introduction

Part 1: Forgotten Things in Space
Chapter 1: The Beginning of the Universe
Chapter 2: About the Solar System
Chapter 3: Pastor Evans' Universe

Part 2: The Size of the Earth
Chapter 4 The Size of Things
Chapter 5 Quarrymen
Chapter 6: Science Bares Its Teeth
Chapter 7: Primal Matter

Part 3: The Coming of a New Era
Chapter 8 Einstein's Universe
Chapter 9 The Great Atom
Chapter 10: Lead Escape
Chapter 11: Muster Mark's Quark
Chapter 12 The Moving Earth

Part 4: Dangerous Planet
Chapter 13: Collision!
Chapter 14: Fire Burning Under the Earth
Chapter 15 Dangerous Beauty

Part 5: Life Itself
Chapter 16: The Lonely Planet
Chapter 17 Into the Troposphere
Chapter 18: The Vast Ocean
Chapter 19: The Origin of Life
Chapter 20: Small World
Chapter 21: The March of Life
Chapter 22 Farewell to All
Chapter 23: The Abundance of Being
Chapter 24 Cells
Chapter 25: Darwin's Extraordinary Idea
Chapter 26: The Substance of Life

Part 6 Our Future
Chapter 27: The Ice Age
Chapter 28: Mysterious Bipeds
Chapter 29: The Diligent Ape
Chapter 30: Goodbye

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