PART ONE: GROPING IN THE DARK; 1 Glows, Flashes, and Marvel-Mongers; 2 The Age of Enlightenment; 3 A Deeper Probing of Nature Aglow; PART TWO: THE LIGHTS BENEATH THE SURFACE; 4 The Birth of Scientific Ocean Exploration; 5 The Mystery of a Lit Underworld; 6 Inside the Light-Producing Organs; PART THREE: OPENING UP NEW VISTAS OF RESEARCH; 7 Paolo Panceri and the Italian Cohort; 8 Raphaël Dubois and the Chemistry of Living Light; 9 Bioluminescence Spreads Further Afield; PART FOUR: THE AMERICAN ASCENDANCY; 10 E. Newton Harvey and the Princeton Laboratory11 The Triumph of the Biochemists; 12 Through a Glass, Brightly
William Beebe's Bathysphere; PART FIVE: OFF CENTRE STAGE; 13 The Peculiar Career of Yata Haneda; 14 Circling the Luminaries; 15 A Bioluminescence Expedition; PART SIX: THE LEAP TO CURRENT UNDERSTANDING; 16 Probing Oceanic Bioluminescence; 17 Understanding How Light Sources Are Controlled; 18 Unravelling Molecular Mechanisms; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index