How was knowledge produced by different people in different times and at different places? How was knowledge stored, managed, classified, organized, deployed, forgotten, and recycled? Finally, how did such practices affect what counted as knowledge? The series invites contributions on the 'long' early modern period in Europe and publishes also works on global cultures of knowledge under European influence.

The polymath Leibniz was a prominent member of an early modern network that comprised a wide range of international scholars. Officials from politics and society presented, discussed, and modified innovative knowledge, thereby taking part in seminal developments. The contributions in this volume illuminate how this created the breeding grounds for an early modern public sphere.

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Friedrich Beiderbeck, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences & Humanities, Germany; Claire Gantet, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.