The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe.
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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.
This volume aims to furnish a broader framework for analyzing the scientific and institutional context that gave rise to scientific academies in Europe, from Italy to England, and from Poland to Portugal.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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