Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. 1. Devotees of Science: An Introduction 7
4. Cultivators of Knowledge: From Europe to Franeker
5. 2. The Changing Landscape of Science in Eighteenth-Century Europe 25
6. 3. Eise Eisinga’s World : The Profile of a Devotee to Astronomy between Enlightenment and Romanticism 47
7. Brokering Knowledge: Devotees of Science
8. 4. Electricity and Enlightenment : The Itinerant Lecturer Martin Berschitz 81
9. 5. The ‘Paysans’ Christian Gärtner and Johann Georg Palitzsch : Astronomical Pursuits of the ‘Common Man’ and the Public Image of Science 119
10. 6. In Service to Know the World : Alexandre Moreau de Jonnès and a Soldier’s Devotion to Studying the Colonies (1818–1839) 161
11. 7. Putting Knowledge to Use: Clergy and Science in Denmark and the Netherlands around 1800 185
12. Mediation of Knowledge: Artefacts and Context
13. 8. The Oratorian Teodoro de Almeida (1722–1804) as a Planetarium Maker in France and Portugal 213
14. 9. Imagining Our Place amongst the Stars : Visual Astroknowledge and Early Modern Understandings of the Universe 237
15. 10. The Third Book of Wisdom : Eisinga, the Planetarium, and Eighteenth-Century Learning 267
16. Acknowledgments 291
17. Index 293