Introduction, Jed Buchwald and Robert Fox Part I: Physics and the New Science 1. Was there a Scientific Revolution?, John Heilbron 2. Galileo's Mechanics of Natural Motion and Projectiles, Noel Swerdlow 3. Cartesian Physics, John Schuster 4. Physics and the Instrument-Makers, 1550-1700, Anthony Turner 5. Newton's Principia, Eric Schliesser and Chris Smeenk 6. Newton's Optics, Alan Shapiro 7. Experimentation in the Physical Sciences of the 17th Century, Bertoloni Meli 8.
Mathematics and the New Sciences, Niccolo Guicciardini Part II: The Long Eighteenth Century 9. The Physics of Imponderable Fluids, Giuliano Pancaldi 10. Physics on Show: Entertainment, Demonstration, and Research in the Eighteenth Century, Larry Stewart 11. Instruments and Instrument-Makers, 1700-1850, Anita McConnell 12. Mechanics in the Eighteenth Century, Sandro Caparrini, and Craig Fraser 13. Laplace and the Physics of Short-Range Forces, Robert Fox 14. Electricity and Magnetism to Volta, Jed Buchwald Part III: Fashioning the Discipline: from Natural Philosophy to Physics 15. Optics in the Nineteenth Century, Jed Buchwald 16.
Thermal Physics and Thermodynamics, Hasok Chang 17. Engineering Energy: Constructing a New Physics for Victorian Britain, Crosbie Smith 18. Electromagnetism and Field Physics, Friedrich Steinle 19. Electrodynamics from Thomson and Maxwell to Hertz, Jed Buchwald 20. From Workshop to Factory: The evolution of Instrument Making Industry, 1850-1930, Paolo Brenni 21. Physics Textbooks and Textbook Physics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Josep Simon 22. Physics and Medicine, Iwan Morus 23. Physics and Metrology, Kathy Olesko Part IV: Modern Physics 24.
Rethinking 'Classical Physics', Graeme Gooday and Daniel Mitchell 25. The Emergence of Statistical Mechanics, Olivier Darrigol and Jurgen Renn 26. Three and a Half Principles: The Origins of Modern Relativity Theory, Daniel Kennefick 27. Quantum Physics, Suman Seth 28. The Silicon Tide: Relations between Things Epistemic and Things of Function in the Semiconductor World, Terry Shinn 29. Physics and Cosmology, Helge Kragh.