Scholars in Action (2 vols) : The Practice of Knowledge and the Figure of the Savant in the 18th Century

Abstract

In Scholars in Action, an international group of 40 authors open up new perspectives on the eighteenth-century culture of knowledge, with a particular focus on scholars and their various practices.; Readership: All interested in the Republic of Letters, the history of Enlightenment and the history of early modern knowledge, scholarship and science.