TY - SER
AU - Vera Keller
CY - New York, NY
LA - English
N1 - <p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><p>Part 1. Introduction&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Collecting the future in the early modern past&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part 2. Origins&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Knowledge in ruins </li><li>A charlatan's promise&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part 3. Inventing the Wish List&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Jakob Bornitz and the joy of things </li><li>Francis Bacon's new world of sciences </li><li>Things fall apart: Desiderata in the Hartlib circle </li><li>Rebelling against useful knowledge&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part 4. Institutionalizing Desire&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Restoring societies: the Orphean charms of science </li><li>What men want: the private and public interests of the Royal Society </li><li>Enemy camps: Desiderata and priority disputes </li><li>Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and the hubris of the wish list </li><li>Georg Hieronymus Welsch's fiction of consensus </li><li>Wish lists enter the Academy: a new intellectual economy&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part 5. Conclusion&nbsp;</p><ul><li>No final frontiers</li></ul>
PB - Cambridge University Press
PP - New York, NY
PY - 2015
SN - 9781107110137
EP - 350 pp.
TI - Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575-1725
ER -