Cultivating and Communicating Natural and Technical Knowledge around 1800

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.

• 1. Devotees of Science: An Introduction - Nikolaj Bijleveld, Arjen Dijkstra, Samuel Gessner Cultivators of Knowledge: From Europe to Franeker 2. The Changing Landscape of Science in Eighteenth-Century Europe - Klaas van Berkel 3. Eise Eisinga’s World. The Profile of a Devotee to Astronomy between Enlightenment and Romanticism- Arjen Dijkstra Brokering Knowledge: Devotees of Science 4. Electricity and Enlightenment. The Itinerant Lecturer Martin Berschitz - Oliver Hochadel 5. The ‘Paysans’ Christian Gärtner and Johann Georg Palitzsch. Astronomical Pursuits of the ‘Common Man’ and the Public Image of Science - Sibylle Gluch 6. In Service to Know the World. Alexandre Moreau de Jonnès and a Soldier’s Devotion to Studying the Colonies (1818-1839) - Hugues Chabot, Pierre Crépel, Thierry Dumont, Christian Gaillard, Maryannick Lavigne-Louis, François Renaud, Denis Reynaud, Dominique Saint-Pierre, Thomas C. Anderson 7. Putting Knowledge to Use. Clergy and Science in Denmark and the Netherlands around 1800 - Nikolaj Bijleveld Mediation of Knowledge: Artifacts and Context 8. The Oratorian Teodoro de Almeida (1722-1804) as a Planetarium Maker in France and Portugal - Luís Tirapicos, Samuel Gessner 9. Imagining our Place amongst the Stars. Visual Astro-Knowledge and Early Modern Understandings of the Universe - Wouter de Vries 10. The Third Book of Wisdom. Eisinga, the Planetarium, and Eighteenth-Century Learning - Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Index About the Authors Word of Thanks