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Historians have long been interested in knowledge, its nature and origin, and the circumstances under which it was created, but it has only been in recent years that the history of knowledge has emerged as an academic field in its own right. 'Circulation of Knowledge', a group of Nordic scholars explore a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to this new and exciting area of historical research. The question of knowledge in motion is central to their investigations, and especially how knowledge is transformed when it circulates between different societal arenas, literary genres, or forms of media. Reflecting on twelve empirical studies, from sixteenth-century cartography to sexology in the 1970s, the authors make a significant contribution to the growing international research on the history of knowledge

Preliminary Material /Dagmar Schäfer -- Introduction /Dagmar Schäfer -- Internode /Dagmar Schäfer -- Political, Social and Economic Factors Affecting the Transmission of Technical Knowledge in Early Modern China /William T. Rowe -- Silken Strands: Making Technology Work in China /Dagmar Schäfer -- Technological Transmission in China and Europe: A Comparative View /Pamela O. Long -- Imperial Court /Dagmar Schäfer -- Picturing Yu Controlling the Flood: Technology, Ecology, and Emperorship in Northern Song China /Heping Liu -- Sympathetic Relations: Foreign Craftsmen at the Qing Court /Luo Wenhua -- Symbolic Technology Politics /Wolfgang Lefèvre -- Agora /Dagmar Schäfer -- Ceramics for Local and Global Markets: Jingdezhen's Agora of Technologies /Anne Gerritsen -- Temples, Technology, and Material Culture in Shouzhou 壽州, Anhui /Susan Naquin -- Framing European Technology in Seventeenth-Century China: Rhetorical Strategies in Jesuit Paratexts /Joachim Kurtz -- The Knowledge Agora: The Role of the Officials /Matteo Valleriani -- Scholarly Arts /Dagmar Schäfer -- Making Technology History /Martina Siebert -- The Biographer's View of Craftsmanship /Martin Hofmann -- Chinese Literati and the Transmission of Technological Knowledge: The Case of Agriculture /Francesca Bray -- Two Cultures Speaking with One Voice? Invention, Ingenuity, and Agricultural Innovation in Pre-Industrial European and Chinese Discourse /Marcus Popplow -- Chinese Dynasties /Dagmar Schäfer -- Bibliography /Dagmar Schäfer -- Index /Dagmar Schäfer.

Preliminary Material /Dagmar Schäfer -- Introduction /Dagmar Schäfer -- Internode /Dagmar Schäfer -- Political, Social and Economic Factors Affecting the Transmission of Technical Knowledge in Early Modern China /William T. Rowe -- Silken Strands: Making Technology Work in China /Dagmar Schäfer -- Technological Transmission in China and Europe: A Comparative View /Pamela O. Long -- Imperial Court /Dagmar Schäfer -- Picturing Yu Controlling the Flood: Technology, Ecology, and Emperorship in Northern Song China /Heping Liu -- Sympathetic Relations: Foreign Craftsmen at the Qing Court /Luo Wenhua -- Symbolic Technology Politics /Wolfgang Lefèvre -- Agora /Dagmar Schäfer -- Ceramics for Local and Global Markets: Jingdezhen's Agora of Technologies /Anne Gerritsen -- Temples, Technology, and Material Culture in Shouzhou 壽州, Anhui /Susan Naquin -- Framing European Technology in Seventeenth-Century China: Rhetorical Strategies in Jesuit Paratexts /Joachim Kurtz -- The Knowledge Agora: The Role of the Officials /Matteo Valleriani -- Scholarly Arts /Dagmar Schäfer -- Making Technology History /Martina Siebert -- The Biographer's View of Craftsmanship /Martin Hofmann -- Chinese Literati and the Transmission of Technological Knowledge: The Case of Agriculture /Francesca Bray -- Two Cultures Speaking with One Voice? Invention, Ingenuity, and Agricultural Innovation in Pre-Industrial European and Chinese Discourse /Marcus Popplow -- Chinese Dynasties /Dagmar Schäfer -- Bibliography /Dagmar Schäfer -- Index /Dagmar Schäfer.

The theme of the first issue of the yearbook HIC deals with "Participatory Knowledge". It will target the various ways knowledge is rooted in society through the participation of individuals and groups. Topics may include different kinds of knowledge harnessed within or through communities, modes of producing, circulating, and recording knowledge content.

The idea that the world can be understood through patterns and the principles that govern them is one of the most important human insights—it may also be our greatest survival strategy. Our search for patterns and principles began 40,000 years ago, when striped patterns were engraved on mammoths' bones to keep track of the moon's phases. What routes did human knowledge take to grow from these humble beginnings through many detours and dead ends into modern understandings of nature and culture? In this work of unprecedented scope, Rens Bod removes the Western natural sciences from their often-central role to bring us the first global history of human knowledge.

Having sketched the history of the humanities in his ground-breaking A New History of the Humanities, Bod now adopts a broader perspective, stepping beyond classical antiquity back to the Stone Age to answer the question: Where did our knowledge of the world today begin and how did it develop? Drawing on developments from all five continents of the inhabited world, World of Patterns offers startling connections. Focusing on a dozen fields—ranging from astronomy, philology, medicine, law, and mathematics to history, botany, and musicology—Bod examines to what degree their progressions can be considered interwoven and to what degree we can speak of global trends.

In this pioneering work, Bod aims to fulfill what he sees as the historian's responsibility: to grant access to history's goldmine of ideas. Bod discusses how inoculation was invented in China rather than Europe; how many of the fundamental aspects of modern mathematics and astronomy were first discovered by the Indian Kerala school; and how the study of law provided fundamental models for astronomy and linguistics from Roman to Ottoman times. The book flies across continents and eras. The result is an enlightening symphony, a stirring chorus of human inquisitiveness extending through the ages.