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Book SynopsisThis 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 curiosorum in Schweinfurt. The essays detail the multiple backgrounds that prompted seventeenth-century savants—from Italy to England, and from Poland to Portugal—to establish new forms of scientific organizations, in which to institutionalize collaborative research as well as modes of communication with like-minded individuals and associations.
Table of ContentsPreface 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 Stéphane 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, François 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 Jürgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz
