Knowledge and the public interest, 1575-1725 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Keller, Vera, 1978-
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Learning and scholarship > Europe > History > 17th century. Communication in learning and scholarship > Europe > History > 17th century. Science > Political aspects > Europe > History > 17th century. Europe > Intellectual life > 17th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.