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Author Keller, Vera, 1978-

Title Knowledge and the public interest, 1575-1725 / Vera Keller
Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (x, 350 pages)
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 IIL. 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
Summary "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 reasoning. Neither could ground the other. They both rejected logical systems in favor of shifting, incomplete, and human-oriented forms of knowledge which did not meet accepted standards of speculative science. This study follows their shared development by tracing one key political stratagem for linking human desires to the advancement of knowledge: the collaborative wish list. Highly controversial at the beginning of the seventeenth century, charismatic desiderata lists spread across Europe, often deployed against traditional sciences. They did not enter the academy for a century but eventually so shaped the deep structures of research that today this once controversial genre appears to be a musty and even pedantic term of art"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Communication in learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Science -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
REFERENCE -- Questions & Answers.
Communication in learning and scholarship
Intellectual life
Learning and scholarship
Science -- Political aspects
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045727
Subject Europe
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