Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX
4. Acknowledgments 1
5. Chapter 1 Introduction 5
6. Chapter 2 The Ragged Cartesian Fabric of Eighteenth-Century Biology 25
7. Chapter 3 Geneva: The Cultural Matrix 51
8. Chapter 4 The Discovery of the Polyp 85
9. Chapter 5 Bonnet's Response to the Discovery and the Worm With Two Tails 137
10. Chapter 6 Metaphysical Debate in Geneva 155
11. Chapter 7 Conclusion 179
12. Appendix A The Bonnet-Trembley Correspondence 189
13. Appendix B The Bonnet-Cramer Correspondence 239
14. Appendix C The Bonnet—Réaumur, Trembley—Réaumur Letters 243
15. Selected Bibliography 253
16. INDEX 263