Introduction
Physis and technē in Greek medicine
The three pleasures of mimesis according to Aristotle's Poetics
Art and nature in ancient mechanics
Art, nature, alchemy, and demons
Forms of art in Jesuit Aristotelianism (with a coda on Descartes)
The artificial and the natural
Renaissance histories of art and nature
Leibniz's theatre of nature and art and the idea of a universal picture atlas
Spinoza on the natural and the artificial
Eighteenth-century wetware
Overtaking nature? the changing scope of organic chemistry in the nineteenth century
Reconfiguring nature through syntheses
Concluding comments.