Introduction
1. The Challenge Ahead
2. The Spanish Disquiet
3. Faith and Nature
4. The Antwerp Polyglot: Hints of a New Natural Philosophy
5. Arias Montano Castigated
6. Nothing New under the Sun
7. Premises of the Magnum opus
8. Montanian Hermeneutics of Nature and Cosmology
9. Meteorology, Matter Theory, and Mechanics
10. A Biblical Natural History
11. Disciples and Detractors
12. Expurgated
Epilogue