1. Scientific conventions: international assemblies and technical standards from the republic of letters to global science / Ken Alder
2. Practicing eighteenth-century science today / Hasok Chang
3. The textbook case of a priority dispute: D. I. Mendeleev, Lothar Meyer, and the periodic system / Michael D. Gordin
4. Complex systems and Total War: British operational research and the PM Statistical Branch at the beginning of World War II / Dominique Pestre
5. Witnessing astronomy: Kepler on the uses and misuses of testimony / Mario Biagioli
6. Improvement for profit: calculating machines and the prehistory of intellectual property / Matthew L. Jones
7. Genes, railroads, and regulations: intellectual property and the public interest / Daniel J. Kevles
8. Epidemiology, tort, and the relations between science and law in the twentieth-century American courtroom / Tal Golan
9. Mercator maps time / Anthony Grafton
10. Rethinking 1633: writing about Galileo after the trial / Paula Findlen
Things. 11. Machines in the garden / Jessica Riskin
12. Cosmography and the meaning of sundials / Jim Bennett
13. The web of knowing, doing, and patenting: William Thomson's apparatus room and the history of electricity / Giuliano Pancaldi.
