Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Chapter 1. Introducing A Revolution 1
7. Chapter 2. What Galileo Saw 20
8. Chapter 3. Kepler’s Progress 41
9. Chapter 4. The Poetry Of The World 68
10. Chapter 5. “Look There, Look There!” 91
11. Chapter 6. The Dream Of Descartes 110
12. Chapter 7. A History Of Error 131
13. Chapter 8. The Century Of Genius (1) 158
14. Chapter 9. The Century Of Genius (2) 177
15. Chapter 10. Revolution And Its Discontents 201
16. Appendix 1. Galileo The Fable Of Sound 221
17. Appendix 2. Descartes’s Three Dreams 225
18. Notes 231
19. Bibliography 281
20. Index 309