Mordechai Feingold is the Van Nuys Page Professor of History at Caltech. He is the editor of the journals Erudition and the republic of Letters (Brill) and History of Universities (Oxford). He is the author of a number of books, including The Mathematicians’ Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560-1640 (1984); The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (2004); and Newton and the Origin of Civilization (2013), written with Jed Buchwald.Giulia Giannini, Ph.D. (2008), is Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of Milan. She is the author of Verso Oriente. Gianantonio Tadini e la prima prova fisica della rotazione terrestre (Olschki, 2012).

• PrefaceGiulia GianniniI Research in Institutional Setting1 Between Teaching and Research: The Place of Science in Early Modern English Universities Mordechai Feingold2 The Academisation of Parisian Science (1660-1789): Review Essay on a Spatial TurnStéphane Van Damme3Asymmetries of Symbolic Capital in Seventeenth-Century Scientific Transactions: Placentinus’s Cometary Correspondence with Hevelius and LubienieckiPietro D. OmodeoIIFounding and Shaping Scientific Institutions4An indirect convergence between the Accademia del Cimento and the Montmor Academy: the “Saturn dispute”Giulia Giannini5The Edifying Science. Academies, Courtly Culture and the Patronage of Science in early modern Portugal (1647-1720)Luis Miguel Carolino6The Paris Observatory in the Early modern Ecosystem of Knowledge (1669-1712)Dalia Deias7The Early History of the Paris and London Academies: Two Paths towards the Institutionalization of ScienceAurellien Ruellet, François MalletIIIMaking and Reporting Experiments: Scientific Styles and Publishing Policies8Professionalizing Doubt: Johann Daniel Major’s Observation ‘On the Horn of the Bezoardic Goat,’ the Curiosity Market, and the Institutionalization of Natural HistoryVera Keller9Experiments on collections at the Royal Society of London and the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1660-1740Michael Bycroft10“I am very much troubled that there is so great an expectation raised of that pamphlet”: Publishing strategy and the early Royal SocietyNoah MoxhamSummarizing Commentaries—Institutions and Knowledge Systems: Theoretical PerspectivesJürgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz