Ann Blair (CAMBRIDGE, MA) is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor in the Department of History at Harvard University. She is the author of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age and the coeditor of Physico-theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650-1750. Nicholas Popper (WILLIAMSBURG, VA) is an associate professor of history at the College of William & Mary. He is the author of Walter Ralegh's "History of the World" and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance.
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Introduction Nicholas Popper and Ann Blair Part I. Chronological Horizons Chapter 1. Humanism between Middle Ages and Renaissance Elizabeth McCahill Chapter 2. From Renaissance to Enlightenment William J. Bulman Part II. Geographical Horizons Chapter 3. New Worlds, New Texts: Rewriting the Book of Nature Daniela Bleichmar Chapter 4. Beyond East and West Alexander Bevilacqua Part III. Disciplinary and Generic Horizons Chapter 5. Reconfiguring the Boundary between Humanism and Philosophy Jill Kraye Chapter 6. The Varieties of Historia in Early Modern Europe Frederic Clark Chapter 7. The Knowledge of Early Modernity: New Histories of Sciences and the Humanities Nicholas Popper Part IV. Evidentiary Horizons Chapter 8. Material Histories: Museum Objects and the Material Culture of Early Modern Europe Amanda Wunder Chapter 9. New Knowledge Makers Ann Blair Chapter 10. History, Historians, and the Production of Societies in the Past and Future Yuen-Gen Liang Epilogue Anthony Grafton List of Contributors Acknowledgments Bibliography Index Color illustrations follow page XXX