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Acknowledgements Introduction - Richard Somerset Part 1. Conceiving Disciplinarity: Modernising Projects of Knowledge 1. Bacon's Literary Quest for Scientific Knowledge in Gesta Grayorum (1594) and New Atlantis (1627) Mickaël Popelard 2. Science, Poetry and Imagination: Disciplinary Negotiations in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Writings on Genius Sorana Corneanu 3. 'The Whole Set to View': Orders of Knowledge in Chambers' Cyclopaedia Seth Rudy 4. Navigating the Labyrinth of Knowledge: 'Distantiation' and Narrative Experiments in the Structuring of Encyclopaedic Knowledge Richard Somerset 5.'Things not Words': The Dissenting Academies and Paradigm Shifts in the Ordering, Definition and Production of Knowledge, 1662-1783 Matthew Smith Part 2. Shaping Disciplinarity: Emergent Fields of Practice and Expression 6. The Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris and the Birth of Historical Epistemology Susana Seguin 7. Parisian Surgeons of the Seventeenth Century and the Disciplinary Emergence of Modern Medicine Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde 8. Production and Exchange of Knowledge around 1800: the Example of Anatomical Models in Edinburgh and Philadelphia Marieke Hendriksen 9. The Constitution and Evolution of the First Russian Mineralogical Collection: The Mineral Cabinet in St. Petersburg's Kunstkamera Daria Novgorodova 10. Instructive Books for Children in Georgian England Laurence Talairach Bibliography Contributors' biographies Credits

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