Osiris, Volume 25: Expertise: Practical Knowledge and the Early Modern State (Volume 25)

Part I. Discerning Expertise : (self)-fashioning The Early Modern Expert -- Expertise Ex Stellis : Comets, Horoscopes, And Politics In Renaissance Hungary / Darin Hayton -- Nestor Denied : Francesco Filelfo's Advice To Princes On The Crusade Against The Turks / Margaret Meserve -- State Building Through Building For The State : Foreign And Domestic Expertise In Tudor Fortification / Steven A. Walton -- Ahmad Al-damanhuri (1689-1778) And The Utility Of Expertise In Early Modern Ottoman Egypt / Jane H. Murphy -- The Schumacher Affair : Reconfiguring Academic Expertise Across Dynasties In Eighteenth-century Russia / Simon Werrett -- Part Ii. Expertise And The State : Experts, Political Economy, And Empire -- Experts, Nature, And The Making Of Atlantic Empiricism / Antonio Barrera-osorio -- Organizing Expertise : Engineering And Public Works Under Jean-baptiste Colbert, 1662-83 / Michael S. Mahoney -- Leibniz And The Wind Machines / Andre Wakefield -- Enlightenment Science And Iconoclasm : The Brazilian Naturalist Jose Vieira Couto / Junia Ferreira Furtado -- Political Order And The Ambivalence Of Expertise : Count Rumsford And Welfare Reform In Late-eighteenth-century Munich / Anna Maerker -- Quality And The Roots Of Manufacturing Expertise In Eighteenth-century Britain / William J. Ashworth. Edited By Eric H. Ash. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Also Available Online.