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Informationen zum Autor Nikolaj Bijleveld is managing director of the University of Groningen Business School. Arjen Dijkstra is director of Tresoar; literature museum, archive and library of Friesland. Samuel Gessner is an associate researcher at the University of Lisbon. Klappentext This is a book about some of the unexpected people and places involved in cultivating knowledge of the natural world and of scientific apparatus around 1800. It takes readers across continental Europe from the Enlightenment to the onset of academic professionalisation. The authors widen the horizon of inquiry by looking beyond the scientific elite of academies and prestigious science sponsored by princely courts, the focus of previous major studies of this time period. They consider people of diverse professions and occupations who advanced scientific knowledge through practical means by devoting their spare time and personal resources, thereby crossing geographic, linguistic, and societal barriers. The case studies together demonstrate that such individuals contributed substantially to the spread of new knowledge and found ways to promote technical innovations in society. The present volume is dedicated to these people: the devotees of science. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Devotees of Science: An Introduction, 2. The Changing Landscape of Science in Eighteenth-Century Europe, 3. Eise Eisinga's World. The Profile of a Devotee to Astronomy between Enlightenment and Romanticism, 4. Electricity and Enlightenment, 5. The 'Paysans' Christian Gärtner and Johann Georg Palitzsch, 6. In Service to Know the World, 7. Putting Knowledge to Use. Clergy and Science in Denmark and the Netherlands around 1800, 8. The Oratorian Teodoro de Almeida (1722-1804) as a Planetarium Maker in France and Portugal, 9. Imagining our Place amongst the Stars. Visual Astro-Knowledge and Early Modern Understandings of the Universe, 10. The Third Book of Wisdom, Index, About the Authors, Word of Thanks...
