HISTORY AND THE DISCIPLINES

The Reclassification of Knowledge inEarly Modern Europe

edited by

DONALD R. KELLEY

THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER PRESS

CONTENTS

Introduction 1

PART I. THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE

DONALD R. KELLEY

The Problem of Knowledge and the Concept of Discipline 13A N N BLAIR

Bodin, Montaigne, and the Role of Disciplinary Boundaries 29

PAUL N E L L E S

The Library as an Instrument of Discovery: Gabriel Naudeand the Uses of History 41

PART II. PHILOSOPHY A N D HISTORY

C O N S T A N C E BLACKWELL

Thales Philosophus: The Beginning of Philosophy as a Discipline 61

U L R I C H S C H N E I D E R

Eclecticism and the History of Philosophy 83

M A R T I N M U L S O W

Gundlingvs. Buddeus: Competing Models of theHistory of Philosophy 103

J. B. SCHNEEWINDNo Discipline, No History: The Case of Moral Philosophy 127

D O N A L D P H I L L I P VERENE

Vico and the Barbarism of Reflection 143

PART III. HUMAN SCIENCES

P E T E R M I L L E R

An Antiquary between Philology and History: Peirescand the Samaritans 163

A N N M O Y E R

Musical Scholarship in Italy at the End of the Renaissance,1500-1650: From Veritas to Verisimilitude 185

M I C H A E L SEIDLER

Natural Law and History: Pufendorfs PhilosophicalHistoriography 203

A N T H O N Y PAGDEN

Eighteenth-Century Anthropology and the "History of Mankind" 223

PART IV. NATURAL SCIENCES

PAULA FINDLEN

Francis Bacon and the Reform of Natural Historyin the Seventeenth Century 239

A N T H O N Y G R A F T O N

From Apotheosis to Analysis: Some Late RenaissanceHistories of Classical Astronomy 261

HEIKKI MIKXELI

Legitimising a Discipline: James Mackenzie'sHistory of Health (1758) 277

N I C H O L A S JARDINE

The Mantle ofMuller and the Ghost of Goethe: Interactionsbetween the Sciences and Their Histories 297

LONDA SCHIEBINGERGender in Early Modern Science 319

Index 335