附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The problem of knowledge. The problem of knowledge and the concept of discipline / Donald R. Kelly. -- Bodin, Montaigne, and the role of disciplinary boundaries / Ann Blair. -- The library as an instrument of discovery: Gabriel Naudé and the uses of history / Paul Nelles. -- 2. Philosophy and history. Thales Philosophus: the beginning of philosophy as a discipline / Constance Blackwell. -- Eclecticism and the history of philosophy / Ulrich Schneider. -- Gundling vs. Buddeus: completing models of the history of philosophy / Martin Mulsow. -- No discipline, no history: the case of moral philosophy / J.B. Schneewind. -- Vico and the barbarism of reflection / Donald Phillip Verene. -- 3. Human sciences. An antiquary between philogy and history: Peiresc and the Samaritans / Peter Miller. -- Musical scholarship in Italy at the end of the Renaissance, 1500-1650: from Veritas to Verisimilitude / Ann Moyer. -- Natural law and history: Pufendorf's philosophical historiography / Michael Seidler. -- Eighteenth-century anthropology and the "history of mankind" / Anthony Pagden.
4. Natural sciences. Francis Bacon and the reform of natural history in the seventeenth century / Paula Findlen. -- From Apotheosis to analysis: some late Renaissance histories of classical astronomy / Anthony Grafton. -- Legitimizing a disciple: James Mackenzie's history of health (1758) / Heikki Mikkeli. -- The mantle of Müller and the ghost of Goethe: interactions between the sciences and their histories / Nicholas Jardine. -- Gender in early modern science / Londa Schiebinger.
摘要:"This collection of essays addresses, in specific historical ways and from particular disciplinary standpoints, the problem of knowledge and what used to be called the classification of the sciences. What is, or what passes for, knowledge? What are its divisions, and how should they be related? How is it transmitted, and how can its history be understood and written? Ranging across the epistemological barrier formed by the revolution of modern science, these contributions inquire into the changing disciplinary patterns of the tumultuous times, between the renaissance and the enlightenment, that saw the fragmentation of old ideals and the creation of European modernity." --Book Jacket.
