Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Prologue: Wales in the History of Science Part One: Foundations 1. A Welsh Renaissance: Science to 1650 2. The Scholastic and the Alchemist - Thomas Vaughan 3. Making New Worlds 4. New Worlds and the Challenge to Religion 5. Wales and the Newtonian World Part Two: Gaining a Knowledge of Science 6. Learning about Science 7. The Languages of Science 8.

Spreading the Word Part Three: Practical Science 9. The Science of the Earth 10. The Science of Nature 11. Looking Up 12. The Science of Us I - Health and Social Well-Being 13. The Science of Us II - Nature and Economics 14. Science and Technology I - Artisan Science 15. Science and Technology II -Innovators and Inventors 16.

Encyclopaedic Knowledge Notes References Scientists of Wales Name Index General Index.