| Acknowledgments | iv |
| PREFACE TO THE SERIES | vi |
| PART ONE Precursors Of Science: From Ancient Times To The Middle Ages | 1 |
| 1. Legacies from Ancient Peoples | 3 |
| 2. From Aristotle to the High Middle Ages (322 B.C.-A.D. 1449) | 19 |
| PART TWO The Physical Sciences | 31 |
| 3. The Universe Turned Outside-In: Copernicus, Tycho and Kepler | 33 |
| 4. A "Vast and Most Excellent Science": Galileo and the Beginnings of Method | 51 |
| 5. Newton, the Laws of Motion and the "Newtonian Revolution" | 65 |
| PART THREE The Life Sciences | 79 |
| 6. The Anatomists: From Vesalius to Fabricius | 81 |
| 7. Paracelsus, Pharmaceuticals and Medicine | 91 |
| 8. The Heart of the Matter: William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood | 99 |
| 9. Looking at the Very Small: The World of the 17th-Century Microscopists | 111 |
| 10. Understanding the Diversity of Life | 123 |
| Epilogue | 135 |
| Chronology | 137 |
| Glossary | 149 |
| Further Reading | 155 |
| Index | 159 |