Gábor Almási, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, AustriaCatherine Jami, CNRS, FranceStéphane Van Damme, European University Institute, ItalyMarcelo Fabián Figueroa, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, ArgentinaCatarina Madeira-Santos, EHESS, France

• Introduction; László Kontler, Antonella Romano, Silvia Sebastiani, and Borbála Zsuzsanna Török PART I: NEGOTIATION OF (TRANS-)IMPERIAL PATRONAGE 1. Was Astronomy the Science of Empires?: An Eighteenth-Century Debate in View of the Cases of Tycho and Galileo; Gábor Almási 2. The Jesuits' Negotiation of Science between France and China (1685-1722): Knowledge and Modes of Imperial Expansion; Catherine Jami 3. The Uses of Knowledge and the Symbolic Map of the Enlightened Monarcy of the Habsburgs: Maximilian Hell as Imperial and Royal Astronomer (1755-1792); László Kontler PART II: COMPETITION OF EMPIRES: A MOTOR OF CHANGE IN KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION AND AUTHENTICATION 4. Capitalizing Manuscripts, Confronting Empires: Anquetil-Duperron and the Economy of Oriental Knowledge in the Context of the Seven Years' War; Stéphane Van Damme 5. Contested Locations of Knowledge: The Malaspina Expedition along the Eastern Coast of Patagonia (1789); Marcelo Fabián Figueroa 6. "To Round Out this Immense Country": The Circulation of Cartographic and Historiographical Knowledge from Brazil to Angola; Catarina Madeira-Santos PART III: SELF-ASSERTION OF NEW NODES OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION 7. Mexico: An American Hub in the Making of European China in the Seventeenth Century; Antonella Romano 8. Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World; Silvia Sebastiani 9. Measuring the Strength of a State: Staatenkunde in Hungary around 1800; Borbála Zsuzsanna Török