Preface to the American edition
Preface to the German edition
Translator’s Note
Introduction by Anthony T. Grafton
The Question of Movement
Sculpture and Machine
Natural History Void of Time
The Historical Chain
Natural Formations and Ancient Sculpture
The Collector as Prometheus
Quiccheberg’s Theory
The Habsburg Practice
Research and Vision
From Kepler to Locke
Movement and Magic
Laboratory
Utopia
The Playfulness of Natural History
Francis Bacon’s Definition of the Kunstkammer
Resting, Erring, and Constrained Nature
Creation as a Game
The Kunstkammer as a Playroom
Twins of Progress
Utility
Socialization
The Villa Albani
Winckelmann and Piranesi
Afterword on the Present
Foucault’s Image in the Sand
Turning’s “tape”