The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe

The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe

This volume aims to furnish a broader framework for analyzing the scientific and institutional context that gave rise to scientific academies in Europe-including the Accademia del Cimento in Florence; the Royal Society in London; the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris; and the Academia naturae c...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feingold, Mordechai
Other Authors: Giannini, Giulia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2019.
Series:Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions Ser.
Subjects:
Science > Societies, etc.
Research institutes.
Research institutes
Europe.
Europe
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Part 1: Research in Institutional Setting
  • 1 Between Teaching and Research: The Place of Science in Early Modern English Universities
  • 2 The Academization of Parisian Science (1660-1789): Review Essay on a Spatial Turn
  • 3 Asymmetries of Symbolic Capital in Seventeenth-century Scientific Transactions: Placentinus's Cometary Correspondence with Hevelius and Lubieniecki
  • Part 2: Founding and Shaping Scientific Institutions
  • 4 An Indirect Convergence between the Accademia del Cimento and the Montmor Academy: The 'Saturn dispute'
  • 5 The Edifying Science. Academies, Courtly Culture and the Patronage of Science in Early-modern Portugal (1647-1720)
  • 6 The Paris Observatory in the Early Modern Ecosystem of Knowledge (1667-1712)
  • 7 The Early History of the Paris and London Academies: Two Paths Towards the Institutionalization of Science
  • Part 3: Making and Reporting Experiments: Scientific Styles and Publishing Policies
  • 8 Professionalizing Doubt: Johann Daniel Major's Observation 'On the Horn of the Bezoardic Goat', Curiosity Collecting, and Periodical Publication
  • 9 Experiments on Collections at the Royal Society of London and the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1660-1740
  • 10 The Uses of Licensing: Publishing Strategy and the Imprimatur at the Early Royal Society
  • Summarizing Commentaries
  • 'Institutions and knowledge systems: theoretical perspectives'
  • Index

Similar Items