Empires of Knowledge : Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World (Paperback)

Introduction

Paula Findlen "Early Modern Scientific Networks: The Making of Knowledge in a Globalizing World"

1: Robert Morrison, "A Scholarly Intermediary between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe"

2: Carol Pal "The Early Modern Information Factory: How Samuel Hartlib Turned Correspondence into Knowledge"

3: Marcelo Aranda "Deciphering the Ignatian Tree: The Catholic Horoscope of the Society of Jesus"

4: Paula Findlen "How Information Travels: Lessons from the Early Modern Republic of Letters"

5: Iordan Avramov "Letters and Questionnaires: The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg and the Royal Society's Inquiries for Natural History"

6: Nicholas Dew "Concerted Observations: The Paris Academie’s Networks"

7: Ivano Dal Prete "‘Ingenuous Investigators’: Antonio Vallisneri’s Regional Network and the Making of Natural Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Italy"

8: Elise Lipkowitz

"Corresponding in War and Peace: Rebooting Anglo-French Scientific Communication during the Peace of Amiens"

9: Daniela Bleichmar "Indigenous Knowledge and the Limits of Circulation: the Codex Cruz-Badianus in Early Modern Europe"

10: Lydia Barnett "Giant Bones and Taunton Stones: Reconsidering Racial Genealogies in the Protestant Atlantic World"

11: Alex Statman"The Tarot of Yu the Great: The Search for Civilization’s Origins between France and China in the Age of Enlightenment"

12: Matthew Sargent (USC), "Recentering Centers of Calculation: Reconfiguring Knowledge Networks within Global Empires of Trade"

13: Benjamin Breen "Curvo’s Sixteen Secrets: Tracing Pharmaceutical Networks in the Portuguese Tropics" 14: Londa Schiebinger "The Atlantic World Medical Complex" (6915 words)

15: Kapil Raj "When Empires Meet: Mughal and British Bureaucracies and the Making of British Cartography, Linguistics and Ethnography in the Late Eighteenth Century"

Epilogue: Scientific Networks Reconsidered Carla Nappi and Harold J. Cook