Meanest Foundations and Nobler Superstructures Book

	Preface	ix
	Introduction	1
Part A	The Historical Question	1
1.	Gallileo's Challenge	1
2.	The Correspondence	2
3.	Hooke's Programme	10
Part B	The Historiographic Difficulty	12
4.	Hooke vs. Newton	12
5.	The Genius vs. The Mechanic	14
Chapter 1	Inflection	17
	Introduction: The Bad Ending	17
Part A	The Novelty	19
1.	Hooke's Programme	19
2.	Setting the Question Right	22
Part B	Employing Inflection
3.	Inflection	34
4.	Application as Manipulation	35
Part C	Producing Inflection in the Workshop	42
5.	Construction	44
6.	Implementation	53
7.	Tentative Conclusion	57
	1st Interlude: Practice	59
1.	Introduction--Methodological Lessons	59
2.	Hacking	63
3.	The Realism Snare	69
Chapter 2	Power	83
Part A83
1.	Introduction	83
2.	De Potentia Restitutiva, or: Of Spring	86
Part B102
3.	Horology	102
4.	The Spring Watch	108
5.	Springs and Forces	121
Part C127
6.	The Origins of the Vibration Theory	127
7.	Of Spring again	131
8.	Springs as a Topos	137
9.	A Clockwork Theory of Matter and Power	140
	2nd Interlude: Representation	143
1.	Rorty	143
2.	'Knowledge Of' and 'Knowledge That'	152
3.	Hacking and Rorty	159
Chapter 3	Newton's Synthesis	165
1.	Introduction	165
2.	Newton Before and After	168
3.	Hooke's Programme Revisited	200
	Notes	207
	Introduction	207
	Chapter 1: Inflection	207
	1st Interlude: Practice	210
	Chapter 2: Clocks, Pendulums and Springs	211
	2nd Interlude: Representation	213
	Chapter 3: Newton's Synthesis	214
	Bibliography	219
	Index	233