Part I: Breaking the dragon's egg : science is born. Ether and atoms ; The lost poem ; Bubbles and influencers ; The end of earth, air, fire and water
Part II: The dragon's fire : a new heaven and a new earth. Crystalline spheres ; The end of the heaven's immutability ; Tripping the light fantastic
Part III: The dragon's flight : how discoveries occur. The girl who found primeval dragons ; The backbone of the ocean ; Great extinctions ; The dinosaur extinction debate
Part IV: The dragon's treasure : awards and extreme stars. The not-invented here syndrome ; World wars and Nobel prizes ; Black holes and gravitational waves
Part V: The dragon's pride : light and darkness. Measuring the universe ; What is the world made of?
Part VI: The dragon lords : the whole shebang. Our cosmic bubble ; Towards zero
Part VII; The dragon's future : science reinvented. Machine reinventing science.