Chapter 1: Introduction; PART I: SCIENCE IN EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCOTLAND; Chapter 2: Politics and patronage: Science in an age of revolution, reaction and reform; Politics, science and the Scottish Whig literati at the turn of the nineteenth century; The struggle for reform; Science, party and patronage; Science and the state: The 'decline of science' debate; Science, politics and the Disruption of 1843; Chapter 3: Science and religion between Enlightenment and Disruption; Natural theology and the Moderates; Evangelical natural theology; The Presbyterian cosmos and the nebular hypothesis; Chapter 4: The philosophy of science; Science and Common Sense; Induction and imagination; Common Sense science, subtle fluids and the luminiferous ether; Scottish experimental science versus Cambridge mathematical physics; PART II: BUILDING A LIFE IN SCOTTISH SCIENCE; Chapter 5: Scientific book and periodical publishing in Scotland; The man of science as editor; The man of science as author; Chapter 6: Scientific societies and associations; The Royal Society of Edinburgh; The Edinburgh Astronomical Institution; The Society for the Encouragement of the Useful Arts in Scotland and The School of Arts of Edinburgh; The British Association for the Advancement of Science; Chapter 7: Scientific education in Scotland: Natural philosophy and the 'democratic intellect'; Scottish education and the 'Democratic Intellect'; The teaching of natural philosophy at the Scottish universities; The Scottish universities as a locus for scientific research; Brewster at the University of St Andrews; Chapter 8: Conclusion; Bibliography; Archival sources; Online sources; Published primary sources; Secondary sources.