Chapter 1 Evidence Before Science

Chapter 2 Legal Proof and Probability in Early Modern England

Chapter 3 Seeking Intellectual Evidence in the Sciences: The Role of Botany in Descartes’ Therapeutics

Chapter 4 Towards Descartes’ Scientific Method: a posteriori Evidence and the Rhetoric of Les Météores

Chapter 5 Locke, Pyrard, and Coconuts: Travel Literature, Evidence, and Natural History

Chapter 6 The Visibility of the Romana Ecclesia : Cesare Baronio and the Evidence of the Invisible

Chapter 7 From the Divine Monochord to the Weather-Glass: Changing Perspectives in Robert Fludd’s Philosophy

Chapter 8 Magical and Mechanical Evidence: The Late-Renaissance Automata of Francesco I de’ Medici

Chapter 10 Hutchinsonianism, Newtonian Science, and the Question of Evidence in a Fragmenting World

Chapter 11 Diet and Hygiene Between Ethics and Medicine: Evidence and the Reception of Alvise Cornaro’s La Vita Sobria in Early Seventeenth-Century England

Chapter 12 Prognostic Birds and Vulgar Errors. Popular Naturalism in Early Modern England, 1550–1800