Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Knowledge and Its Making in Early Modern Europe
    Pamela H. Smith and Benjamin Schmidt
 
Making Knowledge from the Margins

1. Women Engineers and the Culture of the Pyrenees: Indigenous Knowledge and Engineering in Seventeenth-Century France
    Chandra Mukerji

2. Visual Representation as Instructional Text: Jan van Eyck and The Ghent Altarpiece
    Linda Seidel

3. Explosive Affinities: Pyrotechnic Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
    Simon Werrett

4. Naming and Knowing: The Global Politics of Eighteenth-Century Botanical Nomenclatures
    Londa Schiebinger

Practices of Reading and Writing

5. Novel Knowledge: Innovation in Dutch Literature and Society of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
    Herman Pleij

6. Watches, Diary Writing, and the Search for Self-Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century
    Rudolf Dekker

7. The Moral of the Story: Children's Reading and the Catechism of Nature around 1800
    Arianne Baggerman

8. Method as Knowledge: Scribal Theology, Protestantism, and the Reinvention of Shorthand in Sixteenth-Century England
    Lori Anne Ferrell

9. Boyle's Essay: Genre and the Making of Early Modern Knowledge
    Scott Black

The Reform of Knowledge

10. Making Sense of Medical Collections in Early Modern Holland: The Uses of Wonder
    Claudia Swan

11. In Search of True Knowledge: Ole Worm (1588-1654) and the New Philosophy
    Ole Peter Grell

12. Stone Gods and Counter-Reformation Knowledges
    Carina L. Johnson

13. Temple and Tabernacle: The Place of Religion in Early Modern England
    Jonathan Sheehan

14. The Fiscal Logic of Enlightened German Science
    André Wakefield

Notes
List of Contributors
Index