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Author:   Mordechai Feingold ,  Giulia Giannini
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   27
Weight:   0.629kg
ISBN:  

9789004416864

ISBN 10:   9004416862
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Giulia Giannini I Research in Institutional Setting 1 Between Teaching and Research: The Place of Science in Early Modern English Universities Mordechai Feingold 2 The Academisation of Parisian Science (1660-1789): Review Essay on a Spatial Turn Stephane Van Damme 3 Asymmetries of Symbolic Capital in Seventeenth-Century Scientific Transactions: Placentinus's Cometary Correspondence with Hevelius and Lubieniecki Pietro D. Omodeo II Founding and Shaping Scientific Institutions 4 An indirect convergence between the Accademia del Cimento and the Montmor Academy: the Saturn dispute Giulia Giannini 5 The Edifying Science. Academies, Courtly Culture and the Patronage of Science in early modern Portugal (1647-1720) Luis Miguel Carolino 6 The Paris Observatory in the Early modern Ecosystem of Knowledge (1669-1712) Dalia Deias 7 The Early History of the Paris and London Academies: Two Paths towards the Institutionalization of Science Aurellien Ruellet, Francois Mallet III Making and Reporting Experiments: Scientific Styles and Publishing Policies 8 Professionalizing Doubt: Johann Daniel Major's Observation 'On the Horn of the Bezoardic Goat,' the Curiosity Market, and the Institutionalization of Natural History Vera Keller 9 Experiments on collections at the Royal Society of London and the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1660-1740 Michael Bycroft 10 I am very much troubled that there is so great an expectation raised of that pamphlet : Publishing strategy and the early Royal Society Noah Moxham Summarizing Commentaries-Institutions and Knowledge Systems: Theoretical Perspectives Ju rgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz

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Mordechai Feingold is the Van Nuys Page Professor of History at Caltech. He is the editor of the journals Erudition and the republic of Letters (Brill) and History of Universities (Oxford). He is the author of a number of books, including The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560-1640 (1984); The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (2004); and Newton and the Origin of Civilization (2013), written with Jed Buchwald. Giulia Giannini, Ph.D. (2008), is Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of Milan. She is the author of Verso Oriente. Gianantonio Tadini e la prima prova fisica della rotazione terrestre (Olschki, 2012).

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