" Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry.
More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively …

A groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart
of the Enlightenment What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes …

The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and
the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy …

Dutch Golden Age scholar Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded throughout the
seventeenth century as the most learned woman of her age. She was' The Star of …

In this book, Carl Goldstein examines the print culture of seventeenth-century France
through a study of the career of Abraham Bosse, a well-known printmaker, book illustrator …

Es soll einmal Zeiten gegeben haben, da hat das Wünschen noch geholfen. Damals kam
ein Fräulein dahergelaufen und behauptete, eine echte Prinzessin zu sein. Die Königin …

Diese Studie bietet eine systematische Zusammenfassung der empirischen Forschungen in
der Science Education, der internationalen Didaktik der Naturwissenschaften. Dieses …

Der Historiker Anton Tantner erzählt die Geschichte derer, die nicht zueinander kommen,
weil sie nicht voneinander wissen. Und wie dem abgeholfen wurde. Dahinter steht die …

The career of storied objects can help highlight the agency of absence and historicize the
notion of scientific objects more generally. Until the sixteenth century, lost, ancient flexible …

This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de
Mandeville and Adam Smith's theories is considered a central component of economic …