Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments XI
4. A Note on the Notes XIII
5. NOTE ON CONVERSIONS XIV
6. Introduction 1
7. PART ONE. Early Modern Physics and Its Cultivators
8. CHAPTER I. Physical Principles 9
9. CHAPTER II. The Physicists 98
10. PART TWO. Electricity in the Seventeenth Century
11. CHAPTER III. William Gilbert and the Amber Effect 169
12. CHAPTER IV. The Jesuit School 180
13. CHAPTER V. Testing the Air Theory 193
14. C HAPTER VI. Immaterialists 209
15. CHAPTER VII. The Cartesians 220
16. PART THREE. The Great Discoveries
17. CHAPTER VIII. Hauksbee and Gray 229
18. CHAPTER IX. Dufay 250
19. CHAPTER XI. Electricity in France after Dufay 276
20. CHAPTER XII. Electricity in England after Gray 290
21. PART FOUR. The Age of Franklin
22. CHAPTER XIII. The Invention of the Condenser 309
23. CHAPTER XIV. Benjamin Franklin 324
24. CHAPTER XV. The Reception of Franklin's Views in Europe 344
25. CHAPTER XVI. The Atmospheres Attacked 373
26. PART FIVE. Quantification
27. CHAPTER XVII .The Atmospheres Destroyed 405
28. CHAPTER XVIII. Two Fluids or One? 431
29. CHAPTER XIX. Quantifiable Concepts 449
30. CHAPTER XX. Epilogue 490
31. Bibliography 501
32. Bibliography 571