"A permanent record of the proceedings of a particularly important Institute for the History of Science, held at the University of Wisconsin in 1957. Seventy-two distinguished historians of science took part in this stimulating and serious exchange of ideas covering many aspects of ancient, medieval, and modern scientific thought."—The New Scholasticism

"This publication indicates in a striking manner the catholicity of the history of science; professors of philosophy, the history of science, the philosophy of science, history, biology, and metallurgy readily conferred with one another."—The American Historical Review

• CONTENTS 
• ONE
• The Scholar and the Craftsman in the Scientific Revolution
• Hall, Rupert
• Commentary on the Paper of Rupert Hall
• Merton, Robert K.
• Commentary on the Paper of Rupert Hall
• Johnson, Francis R.
• TWO
• The Role of Art in the Scientific Renaissance
• de Santillana, Giorgio
• Commentary on the Papers of Rupert Hall and Giorgio de Santillana
• Crombie, A. C.
• THREE
• The Significance of Medieval Discussions of Scientific Method for the Scientific Revolution
• Crombie, A. C.
• FOUR
• The Philosophy of Science and the History of Science
• Clark, S.J., Joseph T.
• Commentary on the Papers of A. C. Crombie and Joseph T. Clark
• Drabkin, I. E.
• Commentary on the Papers of A. C. Crombie and Joseph T. Clark
• Nagel, Ernest
• FIVE
• The Origins of Classical Mechanics from Aristotle to Newton
• Dijksterhuis, E. J.
• Commentary on the Paper of E. J. Dijksterhuis
• Boyer, Carl B.
• Commentary on the Paper of E. J. Dijksterhuis
• Hall, Rupert
• SIX
• Contra-Copernicus: A Critical Re-estimation of the Mathematical Planetary Theory of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler
• de S. Price, Derek J.
• Commentary on the Paper of Derek J. de S. Price
• Johnson, Francis R.
• SEVEN
• The Place of the History of Science in a Liberal Arts Curriculum
• Stimson, Dorothy
• EIGHT
• History of Science for Engineering Students at Cornell
• Guerlac, Henry
• Commentary on the Papers of Dorothy Stimson and Henry Guerlac
• Cohen, I. Bernard
• Commentary on the Papers of Dorothy Stimson and Henry Guerlac
• Boas, Marie
• Commentary on the Papers of Dorothy Stimson and Henry Guerlac
• Roller, Duane H. D.
• NINE
• The Encyclopédie and the Jacobin Philosophy of Science: A Study in Ideas and Consequences
• Gillispie, Charles Coulston
• TEN
• The Politics of Science in the French Revolution
• Williams, L. Pearce
• Commentary on the Papers of Charles Coulston Gillispie and L. Pearce Williams
• Hill, Henry Bertram
• Commentary on the Papers of Charles Coulston Gillispie and L. Pearce Williams
• Guerlac, Henry
• ELEVEN
• Energy Conservation as an Example of Simultaneous Discovery
• Kuhn, Thomas S.
• TWELVE
• Conservation and the Concept of Electric Charge: An Aspect of Philosophy in Relation to Physics in the Nineteenth Century
• Cohen, I. Bernard
• Commentary on the Papers of Thomas S. Kuhn and I. Bernard Cohen
• Boyer, Carl B.
• Commentary on the Papers of Thomas S. Kuhn and I. Bernard Cohen
• Hiebert, Erwin
• THIRTEEN
• Biology Attains Maturity in the Nineteenth Century
• Wilson, J. Walter
• FOURTEEN
• Biology and Social Theory in the Nineteenth Century: Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer
• Greene, John C.
• Commentary on the Papers of J. Walter Wilson and John C. Greene
• Shryock, Richard H.
• Commentary on the Papers of J. Walter Wilson and John C. Greene
• Zirkle, Conway
• FIFTEEN
• The Development of Ideas on the Structure of Metals
• Smith, Cyril Stanley
• SIXTEEN
• Structure of Matter and Chemical Theory in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• Boas, Marie
• Commentary on the Papers of Cyril Stanley Smith and Marie Boas
• Guerlac, Henry
• Commentary on the Papers of Cyril Stanley Smith and Marie Boas
• Ihde, Aaron J.