@book{bibcite_8127,
author = {Vera Keller},
title = {Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575-1725},
year = {2015},
pages = {350 pp.},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
address = {New York, NY},
isbn = {9781107110137},
note = {
Contents:\
Part 1. Introduction\
- Collecting the future in the early modern past\
Part 2. Origins\
- Knowledge in ruins
- A charlatan{\textquoteright}s promise\
Part 3. Inventing the Wish List\
- Jakob Bornitz and the joy of things
- Francis Bacon{\textquoteright}s new world of sciences
- Things fall apart: Desiderata in the Hartlib circle
- Rebelling against useful knowledge\
Part 4. Institutionalizing Desire\
- Restoring societies: the Orphean charms of science
- What men want: the private and public interests of the Royal Society
- Enemy camps: Desiderata and priority disputes
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and the hubris of the wish list
- Georg Hieronymus Welsch{\textquoteright}s fiction of consensus
- Wish lists enter the Academy: a new intellectual economy\
Part 5. Conclusion\
},
language = {English},
}