| A Company of Scientists |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
| PART I THE SETTING |
| Chapter 1 Portrait of an Institution |
| PART II THE INSTITUTION AND ITS PATRONAGE |
| Chapter 2 Members and Protectors |
| Chapter 3 Models for a Company of Scientists |
| Chapter 4 The Material Benefits of Membership: Pensions and Quarters |
| Chapter 5 Research Subventions and Ministerial Control |
| PART III BOTANICAL RESEARCH AT THE ACADEMY |
| Chapter 6 The Natural History of Plants: Rival Conceptions |
| Chapter 7 Justifying the Chemical Analysis of Plants |
| Chapter 8 Ministerial Intervention and an Unexpected Outcome |
| • | The Lost Second Installment |
| • | Ministerial Intervention |
| • | A New Editor |
| • | Conclusion |
| Chapter 9 Analogical Reasoning: The Model |
| Chapter 10 Analogical Reasoning: The Theory |
| Chapter 11 Chemical and Mechanical Explanation of Physiological Processes |
| Chapter 12 The New Instruments and Botany |
| PART IV THE ACADEMY AND THE LARGER COMMUNITY |
| Chapter 13 Medical Motivations and Social Responsibility |
| Chapter 14 Scientific Paris at the End of the Century |
| Chapter 15 Academicians and the Larger Scientific Community |
| PART V THE EFFECTS OF PATRONAGE |
| • | Chapter 16 The Academy as an Instrument of the Crown |
| NOTES |
| ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE APPENDIX, NOTES, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| APPENDIX THE RECORD OF EXPENDITURE, 1666–1699 |
| NOTES TO APPENDIX |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| INDEX |