Acknowledgements
For helpful comments and feedback on the materials on which this book is based, we are grateful to Zvi Biener, Michael Bycroft, Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, Alan Chalmers, Andrew Cooper, Sorana Corneanu, Greg Dawes, Mihnea Dobre, Mordechai Feingold, Daniel Garber, Stephen Gaukroger, Juan Gómez, Niccolò Guicciardini, Philippe Hamou, Peter Harrison, Helen Hattab, John Henry, Michael Hunter, Dana Jalobeanu, Jamie Kassler, Alex Klein, Dmitri Levitin, Fui Lee Luk, Noel Malcolm, Gideon Manning, Oana Matei, Tim Mehigan, Lucian Petrescu, Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, Evan Ragland, Sophie Roux, Eric Schliesser, John Schuster, Richard Serjeantson, Stephen Snobelen, Tom Sorell, Hanna Szabelska, Wiep van Bunge, Anik Waldow, Kirsten Walsh, Eric Watkins, Catherine Wilson, Charles Wolfe, John Zammito, and audiences at the Universities of Bucharest, Mainz, Reading, Otago, and Warwick. This work was supported by the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand (grant number UOO0815), the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK (grant number AH/L014998/1), the Australian Research Council (grant number FT120100282), and a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme.
We would like to thank the Bodleian Library, Oxford for permission to cite Bodleian MS Bradley 1 and MS Bradley 12; the British Library for permission to cite British Library Add. MS 32545 and British Library Add. MS 32546; Cambridge University Library for permission to cite Cambridge University MS Add. 3968. We would like to thank the National Library of Scotland for permission to reproduce ‘Proposals for an annual course of experimental philosophy in St Salvator’s College of the University of St Andrews’, shelf mark Crawford MB 772 as Figure 4.1. It is reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland by the Balcarres Trust. We would also like to thank the National Library of Scotland for permission to reproduce James Jurin’s weather diary exemplar, Philosophical Transactions, 32.379, 1723, p. 427 as Figure 4.3. We would like to thank the British Library for permission to reproduce the final page of John Theophilus Desaguliers’ A Catalogue of the Experiments in Mr Desaguliers’s Course, 1713, shelf mark C.112.f.9(181) as Figure 4.2. The cover image, ‘Two Boys by Candlelight, Blowing a Bladder’, c. 1767–1773, by Joseph Wright of Derby (Object Number 58.16) is used courtesy of the Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California, USA.
Chapter 1 draws from Anstey and Vanzo, ‘The origins of early modern experimental philosophy’, Intellectual History Review, 22, 2012, pp. 499–518 with permission from Taylor & Francis. Section 2.1 draws from Anstey and Vanzo, ‘Early modern experimental philosophy’, in A Companion to Experimental Philosophy, eds. Justin Sytsma and Wesley Buckwalter, Oxford: Blackwell, 2016, pp. 87–102 with permission from John Wiley and Sons. Section 3.3 draws on Anstey, ‘Philosophy of experiment in early modern England: The case of Bacon, Boyle and Hooke’, Early Science and Medicine, 19, 2014, pp. 103–32, and Sections 5.2, 5.4, and 5.5 draw on Anstey, ‘Bacon, experimental philosophy and French Enlightenment natural history’, in Natural History in Early Modern France: The Poetics of an Epistemic Genre, eds. Raphaële Garrod and Paul J. Smith, Leiden: Brill, 2018, pp. 205–40 with permission from Brill. Section 5.6 draws on Anstey, ‘D’Alembert, the “Preliminary Discourse” and experimental philosophy’, Intellectual History Review, 24, 2014, pp. 495–516 with permission from Taylor & Francis. Sections 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 draw on Vanzo, ‘Christian Wolff and Experimental Philosophy’, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, 7, 2015, pp. 225–55 with permission from Oxford Publishing Limited. Section 7.4 draws on Anstey, ‘The four classes of the Berlin Academy’, in The Berlin Academy in the Reign of Frederick the Great: Philosophy and Science, eds. Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet and Peter R. Anstey, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022, pp. 17–38. Chapter 8 draws on Vanzo, ‘Kant on empiricism and rationalism’, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 30, 2013, pp. 53–74 with permission from History of Philosophy Quarterly. Section 9.1 draws on Vanzo, ‘From empirics to empiricists’, Intellectual History Review, 24, 2014, pp. 517–38 with permission from Taylor & Francis.
