Histories of science : Natural philosophy in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / edited by David Alff and Danielle Spratt.

Part I. Rhetoric
Science for the Birds: Figurative Language and The History of the Royal Society / Jess Keiser
Centlivre's Frankenstein: Science, Authorship, and Monstrous (Re)Productions in A Bold Stroke for a Wife / Melissa Bailes
Picturing Air: The Rhetoric of Nondescription in Robert Boyle's New Experiments Physico-mechanical and Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year / Vivian Zuluaga Papp
Romancing the Placebo / Jayne Lewis
Part II. Reception
The "Eye of Mr. Anson Himself": Art and Evanescence in A Voyage Round the World (1748) / Anne M. Thell
Literary Technologies of the Sextant in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Aaron R. Hanlon
Newtonian Legacies in William Hogarth's A Scene from The Indian Emperour, or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards / Laura Miller
"Fully Prov'd by the Plates": Desaguliers' Unauthorized System / Al Coppola
Part III. Embodiment
Plants, Principles, Strata: John Woodward's Improbable Corpuscles / Helen Thompson
"Mice in a Barn" or "Every Little Miss"? Figurative Imagination and Demographic Narratives of the Long Eighteenth Century / Lisa Forman Cody
Jane Barker and Virgin Anatomy / Frank Boyle
Margaret Cavendish, a Sensitive Witness / Kristin M. Girten
Maria Edgeworth's Avian Entwinements: Experimental Science and the Cultivation of the Female Mind in Practical Education and Belinda / Adela Ramos
Part IV. Environment
The Hoe and the Plow: Plantation Labor Under the Somatic Energy Regime / Ramesh Mallipeddi
Infrastructural Inversion at Clarens: St. Preux in the Garden / Eric Gidal
Taxonomic Subversion and Vegetal Expansion in Charlotte Smith's "Beachy Head" / Anna K. Sagal
Spicy Forests and Amboyna Burl: Dryden and the Ecology of Disaster / Rajani Sudan
Geomythography: A Genealogy / Tobias Menely.