A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson [244]
13 “the name was actually suggested to Buckland . . .” Wilford, The Riddle of the Dinosaur, p. 31.
14 “Eventually he was forced to sell . . .” Wilford, The Riddle of the Dinosaur, p. 34.
15 “the world's first theme park.” Fortey, Life, p. 214.
16 “he sometimes illicitly borrowed limbs . . .” Cadbury, p. 133.
17 “a freshly deceased rhinoceros filling the front hallway . . .” Cadbury, p. 200.
18 “some were no bigger than rabbits . . .” Wilford, The Riddle of the Dinosaur, p. 5.
19 “the one thing they most emphatically were not . . .” Bakker, The Dinosaur Heresies, p. 22.
20 “dinosaurs constitute not one but two orders . . .” Colbert, p. 33.
21 “He was the only person . . .” Nature, “Owen's Parthian Shot,” July 12, 2001, p. 123.
22 “his father's ‘lamentable coldness of heart.' ” Cadbury, p. 321.
23 “Huxley was leafing through a new edition . . .” Clark, The Huxleys, p. 45.
24 “His deformed spine was removed . . .” Cadbury, p. 291.
25 “not quite as original as it appeared.” Cadbury, pp. 261–62.
26 “he became the driving force . . .” Colbert, p. 30.
27 “Before Owen, museums were designed . . .” Thackray and Press, The Natural History Museum, p. 24.
28 “to put informative labels on each display . . .” Thackray and Press, p. 98.
29 “lying everywhere like logs . . .” Wilford, The Riddle of the Dinosaur, p. 97.
30 “repeatedly taking out and replacing his false teeth.” Wilford, The Riddle of the Dinosaur, pp. 99–100.
31 “it was an affront that he would never forget.” Colbert, p. 73.
32 “increased the number of known dinosaur species . . .” Colbert, p. 93.
33 “Nearly every dinosaur that the average person can name . . .” Wilford, The Riddle of the Dinosaur, p. 90.
34 “Between them they managed to ‘discover' . . .” Psihoyos and Knoebber, Hunting Dinosaurs, p. 16.
35 “obliterated by a German bomb in the Blitz . . .” Cadbury, p. 325.
36 “much of it was taken to New Zealand . . .” Newsletter of the Geological Society of New Zealand, “Gideon Mantell—the New Zealand connection,” April 1992, and New Zealand Geographic, “Holy incisors! What a treasure!” April–June 2000, p. 17.
37 “hence the name.” Colbert, p. 151.
38 “the Earth was 89 million years old . . .” Lewis, The Dating Game, p. 37.
39 “Such was the confusion . . .” Hallam, p. 173.
CHAPTER 7 ELEMENTAL MATTERS
1 “could make himself invisible.” Ball, p. 125.
2 “An ounce of phosphorus retailed for six guineas” Durant and Durant, p. 516.
3 “and got credit for none of them.” Strathern, p. 193.
4 “which is why we ended up with two branches of chemistry . . .” Davies, p. 14.
5 “perhaps $20 million in today's money.” White, Rivals, p. 63.
6 “the fourteen-year-old daughter of one of his bosses.” Brock, p. 92.
7 “jour de bonheur . . .” Gould, Bully for Brontosaurus, p. 366.
8 “Lavoisier made some dismissive remarks . . .” Brock, pp. 95–96.
9 “failed to uncover a single one.” Strathern, p. 239.
10 “taken away and melted down for scrap.” Brock, p. 124.
11 “a highly pleasurable thrilling . . .” Cropper, p. 139.
12 “Theaters put on ‘laughing gas evenings' . . .” Hamblyn, p. 76.
13 “(What Brown noticed . . . )” Silver, p. 201.
14 “for lukewarmness in the cause of liberty . . .” Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 19, p. 686.
15 “a diameter of 0.00000008 centimeters . . .” Asimov, The History of Physics, p. 501.
16 “Even water was variously rendered . . .” Boorse et al., p. 75.
17 “Later, for no special reason . . .” Ball, p. 139.
18 “Luck was not always with the Mendeleyevs.” Brock, p. 312.
19 “a competent but not terribly outstanding chemist . . .” Brock, p. 111.
20 “this was an idea whose time had not quite yet come . . .” Carey, p. 155.
21 “chemistry really is just a matter of counting.” Ball, p. 139.
22 “the most elegant organizational chart ever devised . . .” Krebs, p. 23.
23 “120 or so . . .” From a review in Nature, “Mind over Matter?” by Gautum R. Desiraju, September 26, 2002.
24 “purely speculative . . .” Heiserman, p. 33.
25 “Marie Curie dubbed the effect ‘radioactivity.' ” Bodanis, E = mc2, p. 75.
26 “He never accepted