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| Dramatis Personae | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Preface | |
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| Europe's Awakening | |
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| Plato, Timaeus | |
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| Aristotle, (a) Physics, (b) On the Heavens | |
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| Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe | |
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| Galen, On Anatomical Procedure | |
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| Galen, On the Natural Faculties | |
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| Sacrobosco, The Sphere | |
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| Copernicus and his Revolution | |
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| Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1543 | |
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| Dedication | |
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| Foreword by Andreas Osiander | |
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| Letter of Nicholas Schonberg, 1536 | |
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| Preface to the Pope | |
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| Introduction to Book One | |
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| G. J. Rheticus, Holy Scripture and the Motion of the Earth [1540] | |
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| Andreas Vesalius, Preface, On the Fabric of the Human Body, 1543 | |
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| The Spread of Copernicanism in Northern Europe | |
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| Robert Recorde, The Castle of Knowledge, 1556 | |
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| Edward Wright, 'Laudatory Address', in William Gilbert, De Magnete, 1600 | |
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| Tycho Brahe, De disciplinis mathematicis oratio, 1574 | |
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| Johannes Kepler, Astronomia Nova, 1609 | |
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| Johannes Kepler, Harmonices Mundi (The Harmonies of the World), 1619 | |
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| John Wilkins, A Discourse Concerning a New Planet, 1640 | |
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| Crisis in Italy | |
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| Galileo, Letter to Grand Duchess Christina [1615], 1636 | |
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| Cardinal Bellarmine, letter to Paolo Foscarini, 12 April 1615 | |
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| Galileo, The Assayer, 1623 | |
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| MS G3 in the Archive of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, ser. AD EE [1624?] | |
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| Galileo, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, 1632 | |
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| Tommasso Campanella, Civitas Solis (City of the Sun), 1623 | |
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| Iberian Science: Navigation, Empire and Counter-Reformation | |
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| Garcia d'Orta, Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India, 1563 | |
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| Nicolas Monardes, La Historia Medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales que sirven en Medicina, Seville, 1565-74 | |
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| Diego de Zuniga, In Job commentaria, Toledo, 1584 | |
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| Diego de Zuniga, Philosophia prima pars, Toledo, 1597 | |
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| Gaspar de Quiroga, Index et Catalogus Librorum prohibitorum, Madrid, 1583 | |
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| Science from the Earth in Central Europe | |
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| Ulrich Rulein von Calw, 'On the Origin of Metals', in Ein nutzlic Bergbuchlein [1500] | |
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| Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia [1510], 1531 | |
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| Georgius Agricola, 'On the Origin of Metals', in De Ortu et Causis Subterraneorum, 1546 | |
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| Georgius Agricola, 'On the Knowledge of the Miner', Book I of De Re Metallica, 1556 | |
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| Georgius Agricola, 'On Assaying', Book VII of De Re Metallica, 1556 | |
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| Paracelsus, 'The Physician's Remedies' [1520s-1530s] | |
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| Paracelsus, 'Alchemy, Art of Transformation' [1520s-1530s] | |
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| Paracelsus, (a) 'Seven Defensiones' [1538], (b) 'On the Miners' Sickness' [1533-4] | |
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| Oswald Croll, De signaturis internis rerum, 1608 | |
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| French Science in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Rene Descartes | |
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| The World [1629-33], 1664 | |
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| Treatise on Man [1629-33], 1664 | |
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| Discourse on Method, 1637 | |
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| Principles of Philosophy, 1644 | |
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| Blaise Pascal, Story of the Great Experiment on the Equilibrium of Fluids, 1648 | |
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| Science in Seventeenth-Century England | |
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| William Gilbert, De Magnete, 1600 | |
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| William Harvey, De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis, 1628 | |
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| Francis Bacon | |
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| Epistle Dedicatory | |
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| Preface to The New Organon, 1620 | |
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| Aphorisms | |
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| Robert Hooke, Preface, Micrographia, 1665 | |
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| Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Natural Philosophy, the Second Tome, 1671 | |
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| Robert Boyle, Of the Excellency and Grounds of the Corpuscular Philosophy, 1674 | |
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| Robert Boyle, 'Dialogue on the Transmutation and Melioration of Metals' [mid- to late 1670s] | |
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| Isaac Newton, Remarks on an alchemical treatise, 'Manna' [1675] | |
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| Isaac Newton, Preface, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687 | |
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| Isaac Newton, Opticks, 1704 (1730 edn) | |
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| Scientific Academies across Europe | |
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| [Lorenzo Magalotti], Introduction to the Saggi of the Accademia del Cimento, 1667 | |
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| Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society, 1667 | |
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| 'On the History of the Royal Society: A Model of Their Whole Design' | |
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| 'On the History of the Royal Society: Their Course of Inquiry' | |
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| Letter from H. Oldenburg to A. Auzout, 24 May 1666 | |
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| The Reception of Newtonianism across Europe | |
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| Richard Bentley, A Confutation of Atheism from the Origin and Frame of the World, 1693 | |
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| Letter from Isaac Newton to Richard Bentley, 11 February 1693 | |
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| John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation, 1691 | |
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| Roger Cotes, Preface to the 2nd edition of the Principia, 1713 | |
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| Extracts from letters relating to the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence | |
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| Leibniz to Conti, November-December 1715 | |
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| Newton to Conti, 26 February 1716 | |
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| Leibniz to Conti, 9 April 1716 | |
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| Leibniz to Wolff, 23 December 1715 | |
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| W. J. 'sGravesande, Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy, 1726 | |
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| Science in the Scottish Enlightenment | |
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| James Hutton, Abstract of a dissertation read in the Royal Society of Edinburgh ... concerning the system of the earth, its duration and stability, 1785 | |
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| James Hutton, Theory of the Earth, 1795 | |
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| Joseph Black, 'Experiments upon Magnesia Alba, Quicklime and some other Alkaline Substances', Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary, 1756 | |
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| Adam Smith, Essays on Philosophical Subjects, 1795 | |
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| Science on the Fringe of Europe: Eighteenth-Century Sweden | |
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| Carl Linnaeus, Dedication and Preface, Species Plantarum, 1753 | |
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| C. W. Scheele, Chemical Investigations on Air and Fire, 1777 | |
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| E. D. Clarke, Travels in Various Parts of Europe, Asia and Africa, 1824 | |
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| Science in Orthodox Europe | |
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| L. Euler, Letters to a German Princess, 1795 | |
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| S. P. Krasheninnikov, The History of Kamtschatka, 1764 | |
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| Mikhail Lomonosov, The Appearance of Venus on the Sun, Observed at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences on the 16th Day of May in the Year 1761 | |
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| Establishing Science in Eighteenth-Century Europe | |
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| Robert Jameson, 'On the Supposed Existence of Mechanical Deposits and Petrefactions in the Primitive Mountains ...', 1802 | |
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| The Chemical Revolution | |
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| Stephen Hales, Vegetable Staticks, 1727 | |
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| Joseph Priestley, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, 1775 | |
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| Joseph Priestley, Autobiography of Joseph Priestley: Memoirs Written by Himself, 1806 | |
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| Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry, 1789 | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| F. Voltaire, Letters Concerning the English Nation, 1734 | |
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| Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, 1686, 1687 ('The Sixth Evening') | |
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| Frederick II, 'Discourse on the Usefulness of the Arts and Sciences in a State', 27 January 1772 | |
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| Index | |