Table of Contents
Wonder and the Nature of Science
Seven Stories about the Moon Penny Noyce 12
Negotiations with a Volcano Naomi Shihab Nye 14
To the Moon Percy Bysse Shelley 15
Substance is Eternal Lucretius 16
Who Has Seen the Wind? Christina Rosetti 17
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep Robert Frost 18
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer Walt Whitman 19
I Remember Galileo Gerald Stern 20
The Earth Meredith Nicholson 21
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye Albert Goldbarth 22
Technology and Engineering
"The Progress of Navigation" from Annus Mirabilis John Dryden 26
We Creators Olive Tilford Dargan 27
The Word of an Engineer James Weldon Johnson 28
Soaring Penny Noyce 30
Skylab Rolf Jacobsen 31
We Are Leaving Them Behind… Shitsugane Olembo 32
The First Explosion of an Atomic Bomb, 1945 J. Robert Oppenheimer 33
Advice to a Prophet Richard Wilbur 34
MRI Linda Pastan 36
The Android Cameron A. Ehring 37
Physics and Chemistry
The Scientific Method: Chemistry Laboratory Kim Roberts 40
Elements Frey Scientific Catalog 41
Ode to Hydrogen Douglas Woolley 42
Ether the Imaginary Linda Marshall 43
The Einstein and the Eddington A.H. Williams 44
[Her voice is so high it's absurd] Steve Offner 46
A Brief History of Gravity Bruce Elliot 47
A Little Girl Tugs at the Tablecloth Wislawa Szymborska 48
Cartoon Physics, Part 1 Nick Flynn 49
Dark Matter and Dark Energy Alicia Ostriker 50
C = The Physics Of Farewell Alvin Greenberg 51
Nature and Ecology
For All Gary Snyder 54
Rain Forest Marilyn Singer 55
Desert Day Marilyn Singer 56
Pileated Ronald Wallace 57
Warbler at Crane Creek Grayce Scholte 58
Wounded Earth C.K. Williams 59
Some Effects of Global Warming in Lackawanna County Jay Parini 60
Global Warming Jane Hirshfield 61
Biology
On Not Thinking About Variation in Tortoise-Shell Ruth Padel 64
A Discovery! Yokoi Yayu 65
The Pink Mite Dorothy Donnelly 66
Holometabolism Joanna Tilsley 67
The Monarchs Alison Hawthorne Deming 68
The Ants Matthew Rohrer 69
The Inner Ear Alice Jones 70
Experimental Robert Wallace 71
Dental Health Leslie Bulion 72
It Has Not Escaped Our Notice Watson Crick 73
Echolocation Deborah A. Miranda 74
Medicine and Medical Science
The Circulation of the Blood William Harvey 78
A Doctor of Medicine Rudyard Kipling 79
Heartbeats Melvin Dixon 80
My Proteins Jane Hirshfield 82
The FDA Approves a New Cancer Weapon Penny Noyce 84
Poem to My Litter Max Ritvo 86
Indian Fevers Ronald Ross 88
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born Nicole Sealey 89
Doctors Anne Sexton 90
Mathematics
Numbers Mary Cornish 94
Living in Numbers Claire Lee 96
Calculations Brenda Cardenas 97
Fibonacci Penny Noyce 98
Chances Are Sunday Hull 99
Meditation on the Statistical Method J.V Cunningham 100
Cantor's Theorem J.V. Cunningham 101
On the Calculus J.V. Cunningham 101
The Pattern Janet Holmes 102
Counting Douglas Goetsch 103
Maryam Mirzhakani, In Memoriam Penny Noyce 104
Geology and Paleontology
Mud is My Mother Katie Coppens 108
The Massy Pillars of the Earth Sir Humphry Davy 109
From Rock Kathleen Raine 110
Flint Christina Rosetti 111
Fluorite Roald Hoffman 112
Dusting Marilyn Nelson 114
The Fish in the Stone Rita Dove 115
Feathers, Fossilized Grayce Scholte 116
Prehistoric Praise Marilyn Singer 117
Extinction Katie Coppens 118
Astronomy
Hailey's Comet Stanley Kunitz 124
Mt. Lemmon, Steward Observatory 1990 Alison Hawthorne Deming 126
The Astronomers of Mont Blanc Edgar Bowers 127
The Two Deserts Coventry Patmore 128
[Mars, oh!] Chuck Abolt 129
[It's funny] Benedict Smith 129
MAVEN Earl Frederick 129
On Neptune It Rains Diamonds Penny Noyce 130
Dwarf Planet Damian Liu 131
What If we Were Alone William Stafford 132
Circling in Space Penny Noyce 133
Astronomers Locate a New Planet Matthew Olzmann 134
Quick Black Hole Spin-Change Edward Sanders 136
Lives of Scientists
Letters of Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace 140
Somebody Ought to Write a Poem for Ptolemy Jacqueline Osterow 142
Galileo Goes to War (excerpt) Preston Newman 143
William Herschel Conducts Alfred Noyes 144
Animalcules Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 146
Marie Curie Writes About Radium Marie Curie 147
1905 Marilyn Nelson 148
Nikola Tesla Kim Roberts 150
On the Fifth Day Jane Hirshfield 151
Biographical Notes and Permissions 153
About the Editors and the Artist 164
Science Notes 165
