Knowledge and the public interest, 1575-1725 /
"Many studies relate modern science to modern political and economic thought. Using one shift in order to explain the other, however, has begged the question of modernity's origins. New scientific and political reasoning emerged simultaneously as controversial forms of probabilistic reason...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction: 1. Collecting the future in the early modern past
- Part II. Origins: 2. Knowledge in ruins; 3. A charlatan's promise
- Part III. 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 IV. 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
- Part V. Conclusion: 14. No final frontiers.