Introduction. “Very Able, Very Sordid, Cynical, Wrong Headed and Whimsical”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Note on Conventions and Dates xvii
6. Introduction. “Very Able, Very Sordid, Cynical, Wrong Headed and Whimsical” 1
7. Chapter One. “I Resolved to Throw Aside All Manner of Hypotheses . . . and to Attend Wholly to What the Appearances Themselves Would Teach Me” 28
8. Chapter Two. Knives Out: Thinking On, With, Through, and Against Paper in the Mid-1660s 68
9. Chapter Three. Pictorial Intelligence: Peter Lely, Experimental Culture, and the Parameters of Painting 98
10. Chapter Four. Cascade, Copper, Collection: Constellations of Images in 1670s Experimental Philosophy 125
11. Chapter Five. “The Wonderful Elaboratory of the Animal Body”: The Royal Society’s Repository at Work 159
12. Chapter Six. The Architecture of Science and the Science of Architecture 188
13. Conclusion 222
14. Notes 225
15. Bibliography 287
16. Index 317