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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Vera Keller (University of Oregon)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Weight: 0.778kg ISBN: 9781009506830ISBN 10: 1009506838 Pages: 414 Publication Date: 07 November 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. The dream of the butterfly; 2. Major's life and setting; Part II. Approaches to Knowledge: 3. The making of a research scholar; 4. The history of learning and research infrastructures; Part III. Reworking Disciplines: 5. Anthropology; 6. Lithology; 7. Archaeology; Part IV. Spaces of Knowledge: 8. Experimental philosophy; 9. Museology; Part V. Conclusion: 10. The light of nature and the uses of knowledge; Bibliography; Index.Reviews'Keller is a masterful guide through the thickets of late 17th-century German academic culture and its colorful characters, collections, and publications. She traces the origins of research to this lost world, where curiosity and freedom from external interference allowed a shifting set of disciplines to form and in ways that proved seminal to the Enlightenment.' Ann Blair, Harvard University 'This is a bold, eye-opening book that debunks long-held prejudices about pedantic 'baroque' scholarship and the backwardness of 17th-century German science. Instead, it tells a whole new story: that of the 'experimental century', in which new, fluid changes are made in the knowledge system, and in which there is no contradiction between corpuscular physics, museum facilities and extensive citation practices.' Martin Mulsow, University of Erfurt Author InformationVera Keller is Professor of History at the University of Oregon. She holds particular interests in the emergence of experimental science and the connections between scientific research and capitalism, colonialism, and political economy. Keller is the author of Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575–1725 (2015) and The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge (2023). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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