A letter from Bombay ; Lessons in obscurity
Invisible world ; The kind of motion we call heat
Dr. Boltzmann of Vienna ; The precocious genius
Irreversible changes ; The enigma of entropy
"You will not fit in" ; The daunting Prussians
The British engagement ; Parsons, lawyers, and physicists
"It's easy to mistake a great stupidity for a great discovery" ; Philosophy seduces physics
American innovations ; New world, new ideas
The shock of the new ; The arrival of the atomic century
Beethoven in heaven ; Shadows of the mind
Annus mirabilis, annus mortis ; Einstein rises, and a man falls.