HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE HERBARIUM

By H. HIKAE

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: PRACTICES OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE FIGURE OF THE SCHOLAR IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PART I CLIMBING AND GAINING RECOGNITION: THE CAREER OF THE SAVANT TRANSNATIONAL CAREERS IN THE SERVICE OF EMPIRE: GERMAN NATURAL HISTORIANS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON STARTING-OUT, GETTING-ON AND BECOMING FAMOUS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REPUBLIC OF LETTERS FROM ARISTOCRATIC SUPPORT TO ACADEMIC OFFICE: PATRONAGE AND UNIVERSITY IN THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT “ON THE MEANS OF BECOMING FAMOUS IN THE LEARNED WORLD”: PRACTICES IN SCHOLARLY CONSTITUTION OF STATUS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A MORAL ECONOMY OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY COMPILER INTO GENIUS THE TRANSFORMATION OF DICTIONARY WRITERS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE AND ENGLAND BETWEEN STATUS ATTAINMENT AND PROFESSIONAL DIALOGUE: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMBERSHIP IN THE LEOPOLDINA IN JÖCHER’S ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCHOLARS ON SOME SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BOTANISTS PART II READING AND JUDGING: THE ACQUISITION AND EVALUATION OF KNOWLEDGE USURPED INTENTIONS: THE RECEPTION OF ALBRECHT VON HALLER’S WRITINGS IN FRANCE ALBRECHT VON HALLER AS LIBRARIAN: SEARCHING AND FINDING IN THE UNIVERSE OF BOOKS CHANGE OF PARADIGM AS A SQUABBLE BETWEEN INSTITUTIONS: THE INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL SCIENCES, THE SOCIETY OF SCIENCES, AND THE SEPARATION OF CULTURAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES IN GÖTTINGEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WILHELM ERNST TENTZEL AS A PRECURSOR OF LEARNED JOURNALISM IN GERMANY: MONATLICHE UNTERREDUNGEN AND CURIEUSE BIBLIOTHEC ALBRECHT VON HALLER’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE GÖTTINGISCHE ANZEIGEN VON GELEHRTEN SACHEN: THE ACCOUNTING RECORDS SAMUEL ENGELS’S BIBLIOTHECA SELECTISSIMA (1743) “RARITY” AS A CRITERION OF KNOWLEDGE AND ITS CLASSIFICATION PART III PERCEIVING AND REACTING: THE MAN OF HIS TIMES THE PHILOSOPHE AS A VIRTUOSO OF COMMUNICATION: MEDIA, SPACES AND STRATEGIES IN VOLTAIRE’S PRACTICE OF COMMUNICATION DURING THE “CALAS AFFAIR” COMMUNICATION AND REPUTATION CORRESPONDENCES BETWEEN THE SCIENTIFIC CULTURES IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES CONTROVERSY AS THE IMPETUS OF ENLIGHTENED PRACTICE OF KNOWLEDGE SECRET SAVANTS, SAVANT SECRETS: THE CONCEPT OF SCIENCE IN THE IMAGINATION OF EUROPEAN FREEMASONRY CHARACTER MASKS OF SCHOLARSHIP: SELF-REPRESENTATION AND SELF-EXPERIMENT AS PRACTICES OF KNOWLEDGE AROUND REACTING TO ROUSSEAU: DIFFICULT RELATIONS BETWEEN ERUDITION AND POLITICS IN THE SWISS REPUBLICS PART IV PRINTING AND COMMUNICATING: THE PRESENTATION AND DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE MEN OF EXCHANGE: CREATION AND CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE SWISS REPUBLICS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ILLUSTRIOUS CONNECTIONS: THE PREMISES AND PRACTICES OF KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER BETWEEN SWITZERLAND AND THE ITALIAN PENINSULA AT HOME IN THE WORLD: THE SAVANT IN THE SERVICE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION RESEARCH PRACTICES IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: THE EXAMPLE OF JOHANN JAKOB SCHEUCHZER FACED WITH THE FLOOD: SCHOLARLY WORKING PRACTICES AND EDITORIAL TRANSFORMATIONS AT THE HIGHPOINT OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS PART V OBSERVING AND EXPERIMENTING: THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE PRESENTATIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS OF EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCES THE SPREAD OF THE DISPOSITIF OF EXPERIMENT ACROSS PRACTICES, APPARATUSES, AND ARCHITECTURES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY OBSERVATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT VOLUME TWO EXPERIMENTS, JUDICIAL RHETORIC AND THE TESTIMONIUM PRACTICES OF DEMONSTRATION IN THE HAMBERGER-HALLER CONTROVERSY ON THE RESPIRATION MECHANISM NATURAL HISTORY AS COMPILATION TRAVEL ACCOUNTS IN THE EPISTEMIC PROCESS OF AN EMPIRICAL DISCIPLINE DISTANCES CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL MAXIMILIAN HELL’S ARCTIC EXPEDITION OF 1768–1769: CONTEXTS AND RESPONSES HISTORY IN A TEST TUBE: NATURAL HISTORIANS’ STRATAGEMS FOR COMMUNICATING EMPIRICISM AND THEORY PART VI ADVISING AND SERVING: THE FUNCTION OF THE EXPERT THE SCHOLAR AND THE COMMONWEAL: CHRISTIAN WOLFF, ALBRECHT VON HALLER AND THE ECONOMIC ENLIGHTENMENT REPUBLICAN IDENTITY AND THE WORLD OF THE COURTS: THE CASE OF THE SAVANT ALBRECHT VON HALLER KNOWLEDGE PRACTICES IN THE ESTABLISHMENT AND REPRODUCTION OF THE MINING ELITE IN SAXONY, 1765–1868 SCIENTIFIC “PATRIOTISM” BETWEEN SELF-IMPORTANCE, SELF-RECOMMENDATION AND CAMOUFLAGE THE ENLIGHTENMENT REQUIREMENT OF PUBLIC BENEFIT AS REFLECTED IN THE TITLE PAGES AND PREFACES OF POPULAR WORKS BY SCHOLARS POLITICAL COUNSEL: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE USEFUL NATURAL HISTORY? PEST CONTROL IN THE FOCUS OF THE ECONOMIC SOCIETY OF BERN