Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century - Hardcover

Keller, Vera

 
9781009506830: Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century

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In late seventeenth-century Europe, scholars crafted the research university as a haven for critical inquiry in defiance of political and economic pressures. Across new fields, from experimental science to archaeology and museology, academics abandoned established intellectual practices and curated the concept of the research discipline itself.

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Vera Keller is Professor of History at the University of Oregon. She holds particular interests in the emergence of experimental science and the connections between scientific research and capitalism, colonialism, and political economy. Keller is the author of Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575-1725 (2015) and The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge (2023).

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