INDEX

- Introduction
- The concept of "element" in its historical-philosophical development
- L'histoire des sciences, ses problèmes, sa méthode, son but
- Die Elementenlehre des Paracelsus
- Die Elementenlehre der latrochemiker
- Die chemische Verbindung bei Paracelsus
- Chemical trichotomy before Paracelsus?
- The law of the conservation of elements
- The Concepts of "Individual" and "Species" in Chemistry
- Das Verhältnis von Physik und Mechanik in historischer Hinsicht
- La Nature et L'Art
- Die Chemie in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts
- The first kinetic theory of gases (1727)
- The discrimination between "natural" and "artificial" substances and the development of corpuscular theory
- La Theorie Corpusculaire de Leonard de Vinci
- The Experimental Origin of Chemical Atomic and Molecular Theory before Boyle
- The species concept in 18th century mineralogy
- La cristallographie dans l'Encyclopedie
- Domenico Guglielmini et le devéloppement de la cristallographie
- Torben Bergman's Crystal Theory
- Les débuts de la theorie cristallographique de R. J. Haüy, d'après les documents originaux
- The zoogeography of Abraham van der Mijle
- The parallel between the history of the earth and the history of the animal world
- Geological uniformitarianism and Evolution
- James Hutton und die Ewigkeit der Welt
- Catastrophism in geology, its scientific character in relation to actualism and uniformitarianism
- The Portuguese Discoveries and the Rise of Modern Science
- Von der "Physica" zur Physik
- The reception of Copernicanism in England and the Netherlands