| Introduction | 1 |
| 1. Invisible Cities and Crystalline Books | 15 |
| 2. Chromosomes and Canons | 37 |
| 3. Sentences, Sculptures, and the Ambiguities of Translation | 64 |
| 4. the Molecular Word Processor | 90 |
| 5. Texts, Contexts, and the Transgenic Stage | 118 |
| 6. Between Physics and History: the New Paradigm of Biology | 149 |
| Conclusion | 178 |
| Further Reading | 184 |
| Index | 203 |