| Science and Sensibility | 1 |
| The Scientific Revolution and the Machine | 12 |
| Isaac Newton's Model | 26 |
| The Eighteenth Century and the Idea of Order | 41 |
| The Nineteenth Century and the Idea of Causes | 56 |
| The Idea of Chance | 79 |
| The Common Sense of Science | 97 |
| Truth and Value | 120 |
| Science, the Destroyer or Creator | 138 |