Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Scientific Revolution -- Astronomy -- The Ptolemaic Inheritance -- The New Sun-Centred System -- Mechanics -- Galileo and Descartes on Motion -- Newton's Laws -- Optics -- Chemistry -- The Royal Society of London -- Medicine -- The Anatomists -- The Futile Search for an Easy System -- Harvey and the Experimental Method -- Microscopy -- Malpighi's Animal and Plant Studies -- The Discovery of Cells -- The Discovery of "Animalcules" -- Microscopy and the Scientific Method -- Technology and Renaissance Science -- Chapter 2: Astronomers -- Nicolaus Copernicus -- Early Life and Education -- Copernicus's Astronomical Work -- Publication of De Revolutionibus -- Tycho Brahe -- Youth and Education -- Mature Career -- Johannes Kepler -- Kepler's Social World -- Astronomical Work -- Galileo -- Refracting and Reflecting Telescopes -- Early Life and Career -- Telescopic Discoveries -- Galileo's Copernicanism -- Chapter 3: Natural Philosophers -- René Descartes -- Early Life and Education -- Residence in the Netherlands -- The World, The Discourse on Method, and The Meditations -- Physics, Physiology, and Morals -- Final Years -- Isaac Newton -- Formative Influences -- Early Work on Motion -- The Principia -- Newton's Final Years -- Christiaan Huygens -- Robert Boyle -- Early Life and Education -- Scientific Career -- Discovering Boyle's Law -- Theological Activities -- Mature Years in London -- Chapter 4: Anatomists, Physicians, and Microscopists -- Mondino Dei Liucci -- Paracelsus -- Education -- Career -- Contributions to Medicine -- Girolamo Fracastoro -- Ambroise Paré -- Andreas Vesalius -- Education -- The Fabrica -- Career -- Assessment -- Gabriel Fallopius -- Hieronymus Fabricius -- Santorio Santorio -- William Harvey -- Education and Career -- Physician to the King.

Later Life -- Discovery of Circulation -- The Invention of the Microscope -- Jan Baptista van Helmont -- Education and Early Life -- Publications -- Major Experiments -- Other Contributions -- Giovanni Alfonso Borelli -- Franciscus Sylvius -- Marcello Malpighi -- Life -- Assessment -- Thomas Willis -- Robert Hooke -- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek -- Chapter 5: Inventors -- Johannes Gutenberg -- Life -- Invention of the Press -- Printing of the Bible -- Hans Lippershey -- Sir John Harington and the Flush Toilet -- Cornelis Drebbel -- Evangelista Torricelli -- Otto von Guericke -- Giuseppe Campani -- James Gregory -- Denis Papin -- Thomas Savery -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Index -- Back Cover.