Science: Bioethics Timeline: Bioethics

Contents: v. 1. Origins of science : prehistory-850 B.C. -- v. 2. Classical and early medieval science : 849 B.C.-999 A.D. - - v. 3. Late medieval and Renaissance science : 1000-1624 -- v. 4. The Scientific Revolution : 1625-1774 -- v. 5. The Industrial Revolution : 1775-1839 -- v. 6. The Age of Steam : 1840-1884 -- v. 7. The Age of Electricity : 1885- 1919 -- v. 8. The Atomic Age : 1920-1949 -- v. 9. The Space Age : 1950-1979 -- v. 10. The modern world : 1980- present.

Contributors from a variety of fields offer their views of the most important discoveries of the last two millennia--and some earlier ones that bore fruit more recently--including social and philosophical changes as well as scientific and technological inventions.