Empires of knowledge: scientific networks in the early modern world

Abstract

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Early Modern Scientific Networks: Knowledge and Community in a Globalizing World, 1500-1800 -- Part I: Brokers of Knowledge -- 1: A Scholarly Intermediary Between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe -- 2: How Information Travels: Jesuit Networks, Scientific Knowledge, and the Early Modern Republic of Letters, 1540-1640 -- 3: Deciphering the Ignatian Tree: The Catholic Horoscope of the Society of Jesus -- 4: The Early Modern Information Factory: How Samuel Hartlib Turned Correspondence into Knowledge -- Part II: Configuring Scientific Networks -- 5: Letters and Questionnaires: the Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg and the Early Royal Society of London's Inquiries ... -- 6: Ingenuous Investigators: Antonio Vallisneri's Regional Network and the Making of Natural Knowledge in ... -- 7: Corresponding in War and Peace: The Challenge of Rebooting Anglo-french Scientific Relations During the Peace of Amiens -- Part III: How Knowledge Travels -- 8: Giant Bones and the Taunton Stone: American Antiquities, World History, and the Protestant International -- 9: The Tarot of Yu the Great: the Search for Civilization's Origins Between France and China in the Age of Enlightenment -- 10: Spaces of Circulation and Empires of Knowledge: Ethnolinguistics and Cartography in Early Colonial India -- Part IV: The Local and the Global -- 11: Recentering Centers of Calculation: Reconfiguring Knowledge Networks Within Global Empires of Trade -- 12: The Atlantic World Medical Complex -- 13: Semedo's Sixteen Secrets: Tracing Pharmaceutical Networks in the Portuguese Tropics -- Epilogue -- 14: Following Ghosts: Skinning Science in Early Modern Eurasia.