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This edited collection of papers explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the role of images and objects in early modern knowledge-making practices with an emphasis on mapping methodological approaches against printed pictures and things. The volume brings together work across diverse printed images, objects, and materials produced c. 1500-1700, as well as well as works in the ambit of early modern print culture, to reframe a comparative history of the rise of the 'epistemic imprint' as a new visual genre at the onset of the scientific revolution. The book includes contributions from the perspective of international scholars and museum professionals drawing on methodologies from a range of fields.

Social epistemology --- Knowledge, Sociology of --- Mental representation --- Prints --- History --- early modern studies, visual studies, material culture, print culture. --- ART / Prints

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This collection offers bold reappraisals of the history of freedom of speech in the pre-modern anglophone world. It addresses the aims and effectiveness of official policies, the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled and the claims that were and were not made about freedom of expression.

Freedom of speech --- History. --- censorship. --- early modernity. --- freedom of speech. --- freedom of the press. --- licensing. --- modernity. --- political culture. --- political ideas. --- print culture. --- secularisation.

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Starting from an analysis of practices of participation in contemporary print and other media, the volume opens up a historical perspective, probing the potential of the concept of participatory cultures for the exploration of past forms of collaboration between individual and collective actors (i.e. authors, editors, publishers, fans, critics etc.). In doing so, the volume sheds new light on the historically, culturally, and medially specific forms and functions as well as on the economic, political and institutional parameters that contributed to the emergence and transformation of what turn out to be precarious alliances. »The individual articles offer a rich variety of subjects, and many of them are rewarding in their own right or will be helpful for readers interested in specific subjects.« Sebastian Domsch, Anglistik, 29/1 (2018) Besprochen in: GMK-Newsletter, 4 (2016)

Mass media --- History. --- Participation; Print Culture; Media Cultures; Book Market; Authorship; Media; Civil Society; Media Aesthetics; Media History; Media Theory; General Literature Studies; Media Studies --- Authorship. --- Book Market. --- Civil Society. --- General Literature Studies. --- Media Aesthetics. --- Media Cultures. --- Media History. --- Media Studies. --- Media Theory. --- Media. --- Print Culture.

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Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, philosopher, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. Offering an elegant and accessible portrait of this remarkable man, Mary Terrall uses the story of Maupertuis's life, self-fashioning, and scientific works to explore what it meant to do science and to be a man of science in eighteenth-century Europe. Beginning his scientific career as a mathematician in Paris, Maupertuis entered the public eye with a much-discussed expedition to Lapland, which confirmed Newton's calculation that the earth was flattened at the poles. He also made significant, and often intentionally controversial, contributions to physics, life science, navigation, astronomy, and metaphysics. Called to Berlin by Frederick the Great, Maupertuis moved to Prussia to preside over the Academy of Sciences there. Equally at home in salons, cafés, scientific academies, and royal courts, Maupertuis used his social connections and his printed works to enhance a carefully constructed reputation as both a man of letters and a man of science. His social and institutional affiliations, in turn, affected how Maupertuis formulated his ideas, how he presented them to his contemporaries, and the reactions they provoked. Terrall not only illuminates the life and work of a colorful and important Enlightenment figure, but also uses his story to delve into many wider issues, including the development of scientific institutions, the impact of print culture on science, and the interactions of science and government. Smart and highly readable, Maupertuis will appeal to anyone interested in eighteenth-century science and culture. "Terrall's work is scholarship in the best sense. Her explanations of arcane 18th-century French physics, mathematics, astronomy, and biology are among the most lucid available in any language."-Virginia Dawson, American Historical Review Winner of the 2003 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society

Scientists --- Maupertuis, --- maupertuis, science, enlightenment, self fashioning, expedition, exploration, lapland, newton, poles, metaphysics, astronomy, navigation, physics, academy of sciences, prussia, frederick the great, berlin, print culture, government, scientific institutions, mathematics, biology, paris, least action, teleology, cosmology, materialism, heredity, nonfiction.

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This collection examines political communication in early modern Britain. Leading historians of the period scrutinise relations between centre and locality and how the state interacted with its citizens. They place communication at the heart of both political and social history to provide an impetus for further scholarship.

Communication in politics --- Communication --- History --- Political aspects --- History --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- centre and locality. --- early modern Britain. --- local agency. --- manuscript circulation. --- multiple publics. --- news. --- parliament. --- political communication. --- print culture. --- state and society.