Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Adam's Encyclopaedia -- Science in paradise -- Falling into ignorance -- Inheriting error -- Carnal knowledge and the divine light -- Baptising aristotle -- Chapter 2 Augustine revived -- Luther and the putrid philosopher -- Depravity and doubt -- Augustinus -- The sceptical hypothesis -- Chapter 3 Seeking certainty in a fallen world -- Vestiges of heavenly light -- Mathematical certainties -- Adam, moses, hermes, solomon -- Inspiration, experience, and experiment -- Chapter 4 Dethroning the idols -- Self-knowledge and the sciences -- The dominion of mind -- The fallen body -- Intellectual idolatry -- Chapter 5 The instauration of learning -- 'Knowledge shall be increased' -- Reversing babel -- Solomon's house -- The limits of reason -- Anthropology abandoned -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Last Page.