List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Newtonian Studies:
1. Conceptual problems in Newton's early chemistry: a preliminary study B.
J. T. Dobbs; 2. The significance of Newton's Principia for empiricism Ernan
McMullin; 3. The defective diagram as an analytical device in Newton's
Principia J. Bruce Brackenridge; 4. Force, electricity, and the powers of
living matter in Newton's mature philosophy of nature R. W. Home; 5.
Concepts of inertia: Newton to Kant Peter M. Harman; Part II. Science and
Religion: 6. Celestial perfection from the Middle Ages to the late
seventeenth century Edward Grant; 7. Baptizing Epicurean atomism: Pierre
Gassendi on the immortality of the soul Margaret J. Osler; 8. The
manifestation of occult qualities in the scientific revolution Ron Millen;
9. Piety and the defense of natural order: Swammerdam on generation Edward
G. Ruestow; Part III. Historiography and the Social Context of Science: 10.
What is the history of theories of perception the history of? Stephen M.
Straker; 11. Tycho Brahe as the dean of a Renaissance research institute
Victor E. Thoren; 12. Agricola and community: cognition and response to the
concept of coal James A. Ruffner; 13. Theories for the birds: an inquiry
into the significance of the theory of evolution for the history of
systematics Paul Lawrence Farber; Bibliography of Richard S. Westfall's
writings on the history of science; Index.
