Book One: Time
The Heavenly Empire
From Sun Time to Clock Time
The Missionary Clock
Book Two: The Earth and the Seas
The Geography of the Imagination
Paths to the East
Doubling the World
The American Surprise
Sea Paths to Everywhere
Book Three: Nature
Seeing the Invisible
Inside Ourselves
Science Goes Public
Cataloguing the Whole Creation
Book Four: Society
Widening the Communities of Knowledge
Opening the Past
Surveying the Present