Divine order: Isaac Newton and physico-theology
Celestial order and universal gravity
Mixed mathematics and probability
Inventories of electricity
Organization: living things
Cleaning up chemistry: the classification of matter
Laplace, revolutionary order, and the invention of mathematical physics
Entr'acte: institutions and pedagogy
Classification and extinction: Cuvier and natural history in the early nineteenth century
Darwin's taxonomy: geology and the organization of life
Evolution and scientific naturalism
Thermodynamics and modern physics
Chance and determinism: new models of science
Electromagnetism, action at a distance, and aether
The chemical use of atoms
Laboratories of the heavens: physcs in the observatory
New modes of natural philosophy
Conclusion: the world we have gained...and lost.
