Negotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • László Kontler, Antonella Romano, Silvia Sebastiani, Borbála Zsuzsanna Török

      Pages 1-22

3. Negotiation of (Trans-)Imperial Patronage

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Was Astronomy the Science of Empires? An Eighteenth-Century Debate in View of the Cases of Tycho and Galileo

      • Gábor Almási

      Pages 25-51

   3. The Jesuits’ Negotiation of Science between France and China (1685–1722): Knowledge and Modes of Imperial Expansion

      • Catherine Jami

      Pages 53-77

   4. The Uses of Knowledge and the Symbolic Map of the Enlightened Monarchy of the Habsburgs: Maximilian Hell as Imperial and Royal Astronomer (1755–1792)

      • László Kontler

      Pages 79-105

4. Competition of Empires: A Motor of Change in Knowledge Acquisition and Authentication

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Capitalizing Manuscripts, Confronting Empires: Anquetil-Duperron and the Economy of Oriental Knowledge in the Context of the Seven Years’ War

      • Stéphane Van Damme

      Pages 109-128

   3. Contested Locations of Knowledge: The Malaspina Expedition along the Eastern Coast of Patagonia (1789)

      • Marcelo Fabián Figueroa

      Pages 129-151

   4. “To Round Out this Immense Country”: The Circulation of Cartographic and Historiographical Knowledge between Brazil and Angola in the Eighteenth Century

      • Catarina Madeira-Santos

      Pages 153-177

5. Self-assertion of New Nodes of Knowledge Production

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Mexico, an American Hub in the Making of European China in the Seventeenth Century

      • Antonella Romano

      Pages 181-206

   3. Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World

      • Silvia Sebastiani

      Pages 207-233

   4. Measuring the Strength of a State: Staatenkunde in Hungary around 1800

      • Borbála Zsuzsanna Török

      Pages 235-261

6. Back Matter

   Pages 263-273

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This volume takes a decentered look at early modern empires and rejects the center/periphery divide. With an unconventional geographical set of cases, including the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg, Iberian, French and British empires, as well as China, contributors seize the spatial dynamics of the scientific enterprise.

• British Empire
• China
• empire
• Europe
• Expansion
• France
• Hungary

• Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

  László Kontler

• École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France

  Antonella Romano, Silvia Sebastiani

• Centre Alexandre Koyré, France

  Antonella Romano

• Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany

  Borbála Zsuzsanna Török

Gábor Almási, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria Catherine Jami, CNRS, France Stéphane Van Damme, European University Institute, Italy Marcelo Fabián Figueroa, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina Catarina Madeira-Santos, EHESS, France

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