Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Physico-Theology: Dialogics, History, and Theory 1
5. 1. "A Close (though Mystick) Connection": Boyle's Defense of the Bible 34
6. 2. "Babel revers'd": Real Characters, Philosophical Languages, and Idealizations of Order 63
7. 3. "Those Fabulous Chaldeans,: Boyle and the Crisis of Baconianism 95
8. 4. "Ye true & real temple of God": Mathematics, History, and the Narrative Structures of Newton's Natural Philosophy 131
9. 5. "The interposition of Omniscience": History, Method, and Aesthetics in Early Eighteenth-Century Newtonianism 178
10. 6. Boyle "Epitomiz' d": The Reinscription of Science in Early Eighteenth-Century England 216
11. Epilogue 257
12. Index 261