Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Navigating -- Part I -- Part II -- Chapter 2 Modelling a disputation (Quaestio from Aquinas) -- Q. VI: Article I -- Chapter 3 Making sense of the cosmos -- Proemium -- Chapter 4 Reordering the Cosmos -- Dedication of the revolutions of the heavenly bodies -- Chapter 5 Seeing new things: The New World -- Chapter VI.-That there is Land and Sea Under the two Poles -- Chapter XVI.-Wherein an answere is made to them that say that in times passed they have sayled through the Ocean as at this day -- Chapter XIX.-That we may coniecture how the first inhabitants of the Indies came thither by force of weather, and not willingly -- Chapter 6 Practical knowledge, experimental manipulation, and natural philosophy -- Chapter 7 Seeing new things: The heavens -- The Herald of the Stars -- Chapter 8 Novelty from experience -- Chapter 9 Making experimental knowledge -- Second Day -- Chapter 10 Casting a horoscope -- Chapter 11 Seeing new things -- The preface -- Chapter 12 Systematic data-gathering -- Chapter 13 Experimental philosophy -- Chapter 14 Social data -- Chapter 15 Trade and the physical globe -- Chapter 16 Finding new phenomena: Electrical effects -- Fourth Memoir on Electricity (extract, pp. 457-459): -- Chapter 17 Electricity: Balancing the books -- Chapter 18 How to make sense of diversity in nature -- Chapter 19 Building a Newtonian universe -- Chapter 20 Charles's balloon ascent -- Copy of the statement [procès-verbal] written and prepared by M. Charles -- Chapter 21 Lavoisier's work on water -- Chapter 22 Making chemistry rational -- Chapter 23 A new phenomenon: Current electricity -- Chapter 24 Human sciences: Philology and anthropology