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1st Edition

Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World

Edited By Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Copyright 2023
256 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to study knowledge transfer in early modern knowledge societies. In the early modern period the scale, intensity, and reach of exchange exploded. This volume develops a historicised understanding of knowledge transfer to shed new light on these fundamental changes. By looking at the... Read more

Introduction: Regulating Knowledge: Rules as Enablers
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis

Part I: Labelling

1. Guidelines for Reading: Medieval censura and Roman censorhip
Irene van Renswoude

2. Regulating Dangerous Knowledge: John Lockman’s (1698-1771) Enlightened Readings of Jesuit Letters
Renate Dürr

Part II: Validating

3. Validating Linguistic Knowledge of Amerindian Languages
Werner Thomas

4. Regulating the Form:　How Manuscript Newsletters Influenced the Standards for Dutch Printed Newspapers (c. 1580-1630)
Renate Pieper

5. Lost in Regulation: The Hybrid Stage of Trade Knowledge
Ida Nijenhuis

Part III: Instructing

6. Instructing Trade and War: Regulating Knowledge and People on Faraway Dutch Voyages ca. 1600
Djoeke van Netten

7. Regulating the Transfer of Secret Knowledge in Renaissance Venice: A Form of Early Modern Management
Ioanna Iordanou

Part IV: Disciplining

8. Risking Private Ventures: The Instructive Failure of a Well-Travelled Artist, Cornelis de Bruyn
Harold J. Cook

9. On Censors and Booksellers: Curial Elites and the Regulation of Roman Book Trade in the 17th Century
Andreea Badea

10. Regulating the Exchange of Knowledge: Invoking the ‘Republic of Letters’ as a Speech Act
Dirk van Miert

Biography

Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis is Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of Twente and Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of Early Modern History of Knowledge at Free University, Amsterdam. He studies early modern knowledge cultures, in particular relating to the mathematical sciences. He co-edited Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts (2019) and Rethinking Stevin Rethinking (2021).

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