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1 online resource. |
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History of science and medicine library ; volume 34 |
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Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; volume 9 |
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History of science and medicine library ; v. 34.
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History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 9.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Practices of Knowledge and the Figure of the Scholar in the Eighteenth Century / André Holenstein , Hubert Steinke and Martin Stuber -- Transnational Careers in the Service of Empire: German Natural Historians in Eighteenth-Century London / Thomas Biskup -- Starting-Out, Getting-On and Becoming Famous in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters / Laurence Brockliss -- From Aristocratic Support to Academic Office: Patronage and University in the Scottish Enlightenment / Iris Fleßenkämper -- "On the Means of Becoming Famous in the Learned World": Practices in Scholarly Constitution of Status and the Emergence of a Moral Economy of Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century / Marian Füssel -- Compiler into Genius. The Transformation of Dictionary Writers in Eighteenth-Century France and England / Caspar Hirschi -- Between Status Attainment and Professional Dialogue: The Significance of Membership in the Leopoldina in 1750 / Marion Mücke -- Jöcher's Anthropology of Scholars / Ulrich Johannes Schneider -- On Some Social Characteristics of the Eighteenth-Century Botanists / René Sigrist -- Usurped Intentions: The Reception of Albrecht von Haller's Writings in France / Florence Catherine -- Albrecht von Haller as Librarian: Searching and Finding in the Universe of Books / Claudia Engler -- Change of Paradigm as a Squabble between Institutions: The Institute of Historical Sciences, the Society of Sciences, and the Separation of Cultural and Natural Sciences in Göttingen in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century / Martin Gierl -- Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel as a Precursor of Learned Journalism in Germany: Monatliche Unterredungen and Curieuse Bibliothec / Thomas Habel -- Albrecht von Haller's Contribution to the Göttingische Anzeigen von Gelehrten Sachen: The Accounting Records / Anne Saada -- Samuel Engels's Bibliotheca selectissima (1743). "Rarity" as a Criterion of Knowledge and Its Classification / Torsten Sander -- The philosophe as a Virtuoso of Communication: Media, Spaces and Strategies in Voltaire's Practice of Communication during the "Calas Affair" / Kirill Abrosimov -- Communication and Reputation. Correspondences between the Scientific Cultures in the Eighteenth and Twenty-first Centuries / Daniel Fulda -- Controversy as the Impetus of Enlightened Practice of Knowledge / Rainer Godel -- Secret Savants, Savant Secrets: The Concept of Science in the Imagination of European Freemasonry / Andreas Önnerfors -- Character Masks of Scholarship: Self-Representation and Self-Experiment as Practices of Knowledge around 1770 / Hole Rößler -- Reacting to Rousseau: Difficult Relations between Erudition and Politics in the Swiss Republics / Simone Zurbuchen -- Men of Exchange: Creation and Circulation of Knowledge in the Swiss Republics of the Eighteenth Century / Simona Boscani Leoni -- Illustrious Connections: The Premises and Practices of Knowledge Transfer between Switzerland and the Italian Peninsula / Clorinda Donato -- At Home in the World: The Savant in the Service of Global Education / Karl S. Guthke -- Research Practices in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Example of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer / Urs B. Leu. |
| Local Note |
Brill eBooks, open access |
| Subject |
Learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Scholars -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Knowledge, Theory of -- History -- 18th century.
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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REFERENCE -- Questions & Answers.
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Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
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Knowledge, Theory of. (OCoLC)fst00988194
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Learning and scholarship. (OCoLC)fst00994857
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Scholars. (OCoLC)fst01106878
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1799
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Holenstein, André.
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Steinke, Hubert.
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Stuber, Martin.
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Rogger, Philippe.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Scholars in action. Leiden : Brill, 2013 9789004243903 (DLC) 2013001248 |
| ISBN |
9789004243910 (electronic book) |
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9004243917 (electronic book) |
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9781299561175 (electronic book) |
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1299561179 (electronic book) |
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9789004243903 (Cloth) |
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9004243909 (Cloth) |
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