Introduction, Part1. Conflicted Modernity. 1550-1600, Chapter
1. Rifts and Ruptures, Confessional divides, Bible translation: scholarship, commerce and conviction, Partisan pictures, Snapshot: The Tupi and the man called Oyster, Chapter
2. Importing Knowledge, Trades, words, glossaries, The translator as entrepreneur: Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Medical translations from Paracelsus to Carolus Battus, The growth of botanical knowledge, Translating science: Marten Everaert, Snapshot: A physician on the perfect language, Chapter
3. The Novelty of Form, The Classics in vernacular garb, Languages and exile: Lucas d'Heere and Jan vander Noot, Literary networks: Jan van Hout and Karel van Mander, A moral philosophy network: D.V. Coornhert & Co., A pure tongue, Snapshot: Happy again?, Part2. Cosmopolitan Demands.1600-1650, Chapter
4. Language Providers, Strange encounters, The faithful interpreter, Missionary translation, Snapshot: The wondrous world of Jaques Joosten, interpreter, Chapter
5. Confession and Consolidation, Growing apart, Living the faith, The States Bible of 1637, Psalm translations and translation criticism, Snapshot: Miracles in translation, Chapter
6. Translation as Imitation, Multiple translations, Imitation in action, Translation metaphors and imitation theory, Popular fiction, Snapshot: Jeptha's untranslatable word, Chapter
7. Matters of Practice, Tools of the trade, Costs and benefits, Around the Dutch Mathematique, Snapshot: A schoolmaster's tongues, Part3. Shifting Horizons. 1650-1700, Chapter
8. Stages of Translation, Translation as self-improvement: Vondel, Translating for the Amsterdam Theatre, A translators' collective and its polemics, Snapshot: What is paraphrastic translation?, Chapter
9. The Whole World, The international news, The world within reach, Interpreters on Deshima and at the Cape, The orientalist prodigy Herbert de Jager, Snapshot: The drugger-men of the Levant, Chapter
10. Other Minds, The arch-translator Jan Hendrik Glazemaker, Radical purism, Republicanism and reason, Spinoza and after, Other tongues, Snapshot: Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek in need of translators, Conclusion, References, Bibliography, Index