C o n t e n t s

  Acknowledgments....................................................vii

  1. Imaginary Lines...................................................1

  2. The Sea Before Time..............................................11

  3. Adrift in a Clockwork Universe...................................21

  4. Time in a Bottle.................................................34

  5. Powder of Sympathy...............................................41

  6. The Prize........................................................51

  7. Cogmaker's Journal...............................................61

  8. The Grasshopper Goes to Sea......................................74

  9.  Hands on Heaven's Clock.........................................88

  10. The Diamond Timekeeper.........................................100

  11. Trial by Fire and Water........................................111

  12. A Tale of Two Portraits........................................126

  13. The Second Voyage of Captain James Cook........................138

  14. The Mass Production of Genius..................................152

  15. In the Meridian Courtyard......................................165

  Sources............................................................177

  Index..............................................................181