| A Company of Scientists |
 | ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
| PART I THE SETTING |
 | Chapter 1 Portrait of an Institution |
| 14 | | PART II THE INSTITUTION AND ITS PATRONAGE |
| 11 | | Chapter 2 Members and Protectors |
| Chapter 3 Models for a Company of Scientists |
| 1 | | Chapter 4 The Material Benefits of Membership: Pensions and Quarters |
| 2 | | Chapter 5 Research Subventions and Ministerial Control |
| 134 | | PART III BOTANICAL RESEARCH AT THE ACADEMY |
| 43 | | Chapter 6 The Natural History of Plants: Rival Conceptions |
| 53 | | Chapter 7 Justifying the Chemical Analysis of Plants |
| 30 | | Chapter 8 Ministerial Intervention and an Unexpected Outcome |
| Chapter 9 Analogical Reasoning: The Model |
| Chapter 10 Analogical Reasoning: The Theory |
| 7 | | Chapter 11 Chemical and Mechanical Explanation of Physiological Processes |
| 1 | | Chapter 12 The New Instruments and Botany |
| 39 | | PART IV THE ACADEMY AND THE LARGER COMMUNITY |
| 23 | | Chapter 13 Medical Motivations and Social Responsibility |
| 4 | | Chapter 14 Scientific Paris at the End of the Century |
| 12 | | Chapter 15 Academicians and the Larger Scientific Community |
| PART V THE EFFECTS OF PATRONAGE |
| • | Chapter 16 The Academy as an Instrument of the Crown |
| 97 | | NOTES |
| • | Chapter 1 Portrait of an Institution |
| 3 | • | 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 |
| 24 | • | Chapter 6 The Natural History of Plants: Rival Conceptions |
| 29 | • | Chapter 7 Justifying the Chemical Analysis of Plants |
| 4 | • | Chapter 8 Ministerial Intervention and an Unexpected Outcome |
| • | Chapter 9 Analogical Reasoning: The Model |
| • | Chapter 10 Analogical Reasoning: The Theory |
| 7 | • | Chapter 11 Chemical and Mechanical Explanation of Physiological Processes |
| 6 | • | Chapter 12 The New Instruments and Botany |
| 9 | • | Chapter 13 Medical Motivations and Social Responsibility |
| 3 | • | Chapter 14 Scientific Paris at the End of the Century |
| 12 | • | Chapter 15 Academicians and the Larger Scientific Community |
| • | Chapter 16 The Academy as an Instrument of the Crown |
| ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE APPENDIX, NOTES, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| 5 | APPENDIX THE RECORD OF EXPENDITURE, 1666–1699 |
| NOTES TO APPENDIX |
| 10 | | BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| 12 | | INDEX |