Experiencing Nature in Intellectual Contexts.- The Body Politic before and after the Scientific Revolution.- The Geometrical Kabbalahs of John Dee and Johannes Kepler: The Hebrew Tradition and the Mathematical Study of Nature.- The Theological Foundations of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.- Chemistry through Invariant Theory? James Joseph Sylvester’s Mathematization of the Atomic Theory.- Experiencing Nature in Social Contexts.- Religion, Science, and the Public Imagination: The Restoration of Order in Early Modern France.- Dancing with Spiders: Tarantism in Early Modern Europe.- Nature and Culture in the Discourses of the Virtuosi of France.- Dionysius Lardner’s American Tour: A Case Study in Antebellum American Interest in Science, Technology, and Nature.- Establishing an Historiographical Tradition.- From the Sciences to History: A Personal and Intellectual Journey.- Selected Bibliography.- Notes on Contributors.
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