Editors’ Preface, by Charlotte Bigg, John Tresch, and Simon Werrett

Part 1. Opening
In Conversation: Simon Schaffer and the Politics of Intellectual Inquiry, by Lissa Roberts

Part 2. Performance
Science Performed: The Priestley Principle, by Frédérique Aït-Touati and Adrian Johns
Natural Philosophy and Public Spectacle in the Eighteenth Century
Glass Works: Newton’s Prisms and the Uses of Experiment
Easily Cracked: Scientific Instruments in States of Disrepair

Part 3. Capitalism
Opening Marxism’s Black Box, by Jenny Bulstrode, Myles W. Jackson, Dániel Margócsy, and Kapil Raj
Newton at the Crossroads
Late Victorian Metrology and Its Instrumentation: A Manufactory of Ohms
Golden Means: Assay Instruments and the Geography of Precision in the Guinea Trade
Instruments as Cargo in the China Trade

Part 4. Bodies/Machines
Where Bodies Meet Machines, by Iwan Rhys Morus and H. Otto Sibum
Astronomers Mark Time: Discipline and the Personal Equation
Self Evidence
Enlightened Automata

Part 5. Cosmology
Cosmology as Science and Culture, by Jan Golinski, Stéphane Van Damme, Michael Bravo, and Lauren Kassell
Herschel in Bedlam: Natural History and Stellar Astronomy
Newton on the Beach: The Information Order of Principia Mathematica
The World as Animal

Part 6. Travel
The Reflexive Encounter Between Metrology and Orientalism, by James Delbourgo, Samaa Elimam, Rohan Deb Roy, and Richard Staley
From Physics to Anthropology and Back Again
The Asiatic Enlightenments of British Astronomy
Oriental Metrology and the Politics of Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Survey Sciences

Part 7. Conclusion
Taking the Measure, by Steven Shapin

Archives Consulted
Bibliography
Contributors
Index