Books and sciences before print / Rosamond McKitterick -- Printing the world / Jerry Brotton -- Geniture collections, origins and uses of a genre / Anthony Grafton -- Annotating and indexing natural philosophy / Ann Blair -- Illustrating nature / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Astronomical books and courtly communication / Adam Mosley -- Reading for the philosophers' stone / Lauren Kassell -- Writing and talking of exotic animals / Silvia De Renzi -- Compendious footnotes / Marina Frasca-Spada -- On the bureaucratic plots of the research library / William Clark -- Encyclopaedic knowledge / Richard Yeo --Periodical literature / Thomas Broman -- Natural philosophy for fashionable readers / Mary Terrall -- Rococo readings of the book of nature / E.C. Spary -- Young readers and the sciences / Aileen Fyfe -- The physiology of reading / Adrian Johns -- A textbook revolution / Jonathan Topham -- Useful knowledge for export / Eugenia Roldán Vera -- Editing a hero of modern science / Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart -- Progress in print / James Secord -- Books, texts, and the making of knowledge / Nick Jardine -- The past, present, and future of the scientific book / Adrian Johns
