This study shows that modernity has its origins in the advancement of knowledge, and not in the Scientific Revolution.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Vera Keller (Ph.D., Princeton University, New Jersey) is an Assistant Professor of History at Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including, most recently, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography and the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
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1. Collecting the future in the early modern past Part I. Origins: 2. Knowledge in ruins 3. A charlatan's promise Part II. Inventing the Wish List: 4. Jakob Bornitz and the joy of things 5. Francis Bacon's new world of sciences 6. Things fall apart: desiderata in the Hartlib circle 7. Rebelling against useful knowledge Part III. Institutionalizing Desire: 8. Restoring societies: the Orphean charms of science 9. What men want: the private and public interests of the Royal Society 10. Enemy camps: desiderata and priority disputes 11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and the hubris of the wish list 12. Georg Hieronymus Welsch's fiction of consensus 13. Wish lists enter the Academy: a new intellectual economy 14. No final frontiers.
1. Collecting the future in the early modern past Part I. Origins: 2. Knowledge in ruins 3. A charlatan's promise Part II. Inventing the Wish List: 4. Jakob Bornitz and the joy of things 5. Francis Bacon's new world of sciences 6. Things fall apart: desiderata in the Hartlib circle 7. Rebelling against useful knowledge Part III. Institutionalizing Desire: 8. Restoring societies: the Orphean charms of science 9. What men want: the private and public interests of the Royal Society 10. Enemy camps: desiderata and priority disputes 11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and the hubris of the wish list 12. Georg Hieronymus Welsch's fiction of consensus 13. Wish lists enter the Academy: a new intellectual economy 14. No final frontiers.
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