Studies in the History of Knowledge
About the Book Series
This book series publishes leading volumes that study the history of knowledge in its cultural context. It offers accounts that cut across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, while being sensitive to how institutional circumstances and different scales of time shape the making of knowledge.
Advisory Board:
Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Sven Dupré, Utrecht University and University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Arjan van Dixhoorn, University College Roosevelt, the Netherlands;;Rina Knoeff, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Fabian Krämer, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Julia Kursell, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Ad Maas, Museum Boerhaave, the Netherlands; Johan Östling, Lund University, Sweden; Suman Seth, Cornell University, USA; Anita Traninger, FU Berlin, Germany
Please contact Dorothea Schaefter, Publisher at Routledge ([email protected]) if you have any questions about the series or wish to submit a book proposal.
Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Chaokang Tai, Bart van der Steen, Jeroen van Dongen
January 10, 2026
Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), prominent astronomer and world-renowned socialist theorist, stood at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science and the arts of the early twentieth century. His astronomy was uniquely visual and highly innovative, while his politics were radical. Anton Pannekoek:...
The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge: The Impact and Organization of the Humanities in Sweden, 1850-2020
1st Edition
Edited
By Anders Ekström, Hampus Östh Gustafsson
January 10, 2026
This book addresses the shifting status of the humanities through a national case study spanning two centuries. The societal function of the humanities is considered from the flexible perspective of knowledge politics in order to historicize notions of impact and intellectual organization that tend...
The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872–1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse
1st Edition
By Thor Rydin
January 09, 2026
The lifetime of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) was marked by dramatic transformations in Europe. Cityscapes, aesthetic codes, social orders, political cultures, international travel and means of warfare developed beyond recognition; entire catalogues of hopes and fears were torn asunder and replaced by...
Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World: The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 1: Life, Work and Legacy
1st Edition
By Huib Zuidervaart, Oscar Matsuura
December 01, 2025
This volume, Volume 1, presents Marggrafe's stunning biography. Volume 2 consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published. Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential ...
Knowledge and Culture in the Early Dutch Republic: Isaac Beeckman in Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Klaas van Berkel, Albert Clement, Arjan van Dixhoorn
December 01, 2025
The Dutch Republic around 1600 was a laboratory of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Here conditions were favourable for the development of new ways of knowing nature and the natural philosopher Isaac Beeckman, who was born in Middelburg in 1588, was a seminal figure in this ...
The Laboratory Revolution and the Creation of the Modern University, 1830-1940
1st Edition
Edited
By Klaas van Berkel, Ernst Homburg
December 01, 2025
The modern research university originated in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century, largely due to the creation and expansion of the teaching and research laboratory. The universities and the sciences underwent a laboratory revolution that fundamentally changed the nature of both. ...
Cultivating and Communicating Natural and Technical Knowledge around 1800: Devotees of Science
1st Edition
Edited
By Nikolaj Bijleveld, Arjen Dijkstra, Samuel Gessner
August 29, 2025
This is a book about some of the unexpected people and places involved in cultivating knowledge of the natural world and mastery of scientific apparatus around 1800, taking readers across continental Europe from the Enlightenment to the onset of academic professionalisation. The authors widen the ...
Virtues and Vices in the Nineteenth-Century Humanities: Explorations of a Discourse
1st Edition
By Herman Paul
May 19, 2025
What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume proposes to treat it as a practice in its own right. Drawing on case studies ...
Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World: The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 2: Transcription and English Translation of His Astronomical Observations
1st Edition
Edited
By Oscar Matsuura, Huib Zuidervaart
November 04, 2022
This volume, Volume 2, is a supplementary text and consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published. Volume 1 presents Marggrafe's stunning biography. Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the ...