Light without heat : the observational mood from Bacon to Milton / David Carroll Simon.

Introduction : atmospheres of understanding : scientific emotion and literary criticism
"Nonchalance" and the making of knowledge : Francis Bacon after Michel de Montaigne
The angle of thought : Robert Boyle, Izaak Walton, and the scientific imagination
The microscope made easy : Andrew Marvell with Henry Power
The paradise without : John Milton in the garden.