English Science: Bacon to Newton (Paperback)

List of plates; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Francis Bacon (1561?1626): 1. Preparative towards a Natural and Experimental History, 1620; 2. New Atlantis, c.1624; Part II. Robert Boyle (1627?1691): 3. Experiments with the air-pump, 1660; 4. The Sceptical Chymist, 1661; Part III. Henry Power (1623?1668): 5. Experimental Philosophy, 1664; Part IV. Robert Hooke (1635?1702): 6. Micrographia, 1665; 7. On Earthquakes and Fossils, 1668; Part V. Thomas Sprat (1635?1713) 8. History of the Royal Society, 1667; Part VI. John Wilkins (1614?1672): 9. An Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, 1668; Part VII. Isaac Newton (1642?1727): 10. A New Theory about Light and Colours, 1672; Appendix: Joseph Glanvill's stylistic revisions, 1661 and 1676; Glossary; Notes; Select bibliography.