Special Issue: Conceptualising the Production and Diffusion of Useful and Reliable Knowledge in Early Modern Europe Introduction - Useful Knowledge Reconsidered, Karel Davids (Amsterdam) 1. Trading Zones: Arenas of Exchange during the Late-Medieval/Early Modern Transition to the New Empirical Sciences, Pamela Long (Independent Scholar) 2. Gate-Keeping: Who defined useful knowledge in Early Modern times?, Karel Davids (Amsterdam) 3. The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Embodiment, mobility, learning and knowing, Lissa Roberts (Twente) 4. Three-Dimensional Models as 'In-Between-Objects': The creation of in-between knowledge in early modern architectural practice, Simona Valerian (LSE) 5. Artisans, Operative Skills and Labour Rationalities at the Beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Lilian Perez (University Paris-Diderot) Special Issue: Patent Agency in History: Intellectual Property and Technological Change Introduction - Patent Agency: Problems and perspectives, Ian Inkster (Wenzao College, Kaohsiung and Nottingham Trent University) 6. Patent Agents in the European Periphery: Spain (1826-1902), David Pretel (University of Cambridge) and Patricio Saiz (UAM) 7. The Litigations Concerning Renault's Patents at the Beginning of the 20th Century, Gabriel Galvez-Behar (Université Lille 3) 8. Highly Fraught with Good to Man: Patent Organisation, Agency, and Useful and Reliable Knowledge in British Machinofacture circa 1780-1851 and Beyond, Ian Inkster (Wenzao College, Kaohsiung and Nottingham Trent University) 9. Patent Agents in Britain at the Turn of the 20th Century: Themes and Perspectives, Anna Guagnini (Bologna) 10. The Oldest Patent Granted in Mexico and Latin America, Dr. Manuel Márquez (L.L.& M.M. Consultores, SC)
This volume examines the connections between technological change and its knowledge base, focusing in particular on Europe during the Industrial Revolution. >
Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
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