Chapter 1 Introduction: A Mingled Yarn

Chapter 2 Scientific Conventions: International Assemblies and Technical Standards from the Republic of Letters to Global Science

Chapter 3 Practicing Eighteenth-Century Science Today

Chapter 4 The Textbook Case of a Priority Dispute: D. I. Mendeleev, Lothar Meyer, and the Periodic System

Chapter 5 Complex Systems and Total War: British Operational Research and the PM Statistical Branch at the Beginning of World War II

Chapter 6 Witnessing Astronomy: Kepler on the Uses and Misuses of Testimony

Chapter 7 Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property

Chapter 8 Genes, Railroads, and Regulations: Intellectual Property and the Public Interest

Chapter 9 Epidemiology, Tort, and the Relations between Science and Law in the Twentieth-Century American Courtroom

Chapter 10 Mercator Maps Time

Chapter 11 Rethinking 1633: Writing about Galileo after the Trial

Chapter 13 Cosmography and the Meaning of Sundials

Chapter 14 The Web of Knowing, Doing, and Patenting: William Thomson’s Apparatus Room and the History of Electricity