CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. FIGURES AND TABLES ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. ABBREVIATIONS xiii
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. CHAPTER ONE. Mapping Enlightenment England: Practitioners and Philosophers 11
8. CHAPTER TWO. "A Treasure of Hidden Vertues": Marketing Natural Philosophy 31
9. CHAPTER THREE. The Direction of Invention: Setting a New Course for Compasses 66
10. CHAPTER FOUR. An Attractive Empire: Mapping Terrestrial Magnetism 91
11. CHAPTER FIVE. Measuring Power: Patterns in Experimental Natural Philosophy 118
12. CHAPTER SIX God's Mysterious Creation: The Divine Attraction of Natural Knowledge 146
13. CHAPTER SEVEN. A Powerful Language: Images of Nature and the Nature of Science 171
14. CONCLUSION 208
15. APPENDIX. Magnetic Longitude Schemes 215
16. NOTES 219
17. BIBLIOGRAPHY 269
18. INDEX 319
19. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 327