Scholars in Action (2 vols): The Practice of Knowledge and the Figure of the Savant in the 18th Century

In: History of Science and Medicine Library

Abstract

In Scholars in Action, an international group of 40 authors open up new perspectives on the eighteenth-century culture of knowledge, with a particular focus on scholars and their various practices.; Readership: All interested in the Republic of Letters, the history of Enlightenment and the history of early modern knowledge, scholarship and science.