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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Authors' Foreword | |
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| Introduction: The Problem of Historical Inference | |
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| Memories and Myths Chronicles and Genealogies Myths and Legends | |
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| Science without History Historical Cosmology in Miletos | |
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| The Divorce of History from Philosophy Plato's Creator-Craftsman Aristotle's Eternal Universe Stoics and Epicureans | |
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| The Limits of the Classical World-Picture | |
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| The Beginnings of Natural History | |
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| The Authority of the Scriptures Christianity and History Fundamentalism and Allegory | |
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| The New Chronology | |
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| The Mediaeval World-Allegory | |
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| The Dream of the Millennium | |
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| The Revival of Natural Philosophy | |
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| The Fall of the World Descartes' Mathematical Philosophy | |
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| The Theological Consequences of Cartesianism | |
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| The Blueprints of Creation | |
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| The Great Chain of Being | |
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| The Eighteenth-Century Commonplaces | |
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| The Revival of Civil History | |
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| The Birth of Historical Criticism Decay or Progress? | |
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| The Customs of the Ages Human Nature and Social Change | |
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| The Myth of the Social Contract Intimations of Progress | |
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| Time's Creative Hand Vico: the Mendel of History Kant and Cosmic Evolution Herder and the Development of Nature | |
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| The Earth Acquires a History | |
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| The Epochs of Nature | |
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| The Fact of Geological Change | |
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| The Agents of Geological Change | |
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| The Perspective of Indefinite Time | |
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| The Historical Time-Barrier is Broken | |
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| The Background to Darwin Are There Fixed Species in Nature? | |
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| The Temporal Sequence of Forms | |
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| The Problem of Inheritance | |
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| The Final Impasse | |
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| Life Acquires a Genealogy Darwin Recognizes His Problem | |
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| The Creation of the 'Origin' | |
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| The Structure of the 'Origin' | |
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| The Scientific Objections Darwinism and Natural Theology | |
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| History and the Human Sciences | |
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| The Recognition of Progressive Change Critical History and its Implications | |
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| The Evolution of Humanity The Flux of Nature | |
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| Time and the Physical World | |
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| The Evolution of Stars and Chemical Elements Astronomy and the Problem of Creation Truth, Hypothesis or Myth? | |
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| Are the Laws of Nature Changing? Epilogue: Nature and History | |
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| The Evolution of Ideas | |
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| Index | |