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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction -- 1 The Dream of the Butterfly -- 1.1 The Antihero in the Experimental Century -- 1.2 On the Baroque and the Enlightenment -- 1.3 Undisciplining and Redisciplining Knowledge -- 1.4 Structure of This Book -- 2 Major's Life and Setting -- 2.1 Major's Early Life and Education -- 2.2 Divided Loyalties and Scholarly Independence -- 2.3 State-Building and Regional Knowledge Infrastructures -- 2.4 The Founding of the University of Kiel -- 2.5 Self-Censorship, Radical Ideas, and Naturalism -- 2.6 Building the University Infrastructure -- 2.7 Conclusion -- Part II Approaches to Knowledge -- 3 The Making of the Research Scholar -- 3.1 The Political-Gallant Polymath -- 3.2 The Seventeenth-Century Research University -- 3.3 Always Unfinished -- 3.4 Voyage to a New World -- 3.5 Fame, the Vernacular Public, and the Professor's Personal Brand -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 The History of Learning and Research Infrastructures -- 4.1 Globalizing Knowledge -- 4.2 Dissertations -- 4.3 The Journal: The Itch to Write and the Shift to Periodical Publication -- 4.4 Citation -- 4.5 The Critical Commentary in the Learned Journal -- 4.6 Catalogs: Inventory and Advancement -- 4.7 Preprints and Collaborative Authorship -- 4.8 Notes: Commonplace and Database -- 4.9 The Hyphen and Interdisciplinarity -- 4.10 Conclusion -- Part III Reworking Disciplines -- 5 Anthropology -- 5.1 Body and Soul of Anthropology -- 5.2 The First Human Anatomy at Kiel -- 5.3 Skin Color and the Second Human Anatomy at Kiel -- 5.4 Experimental Anthroposophy (1677) -- 5.5 On the Golden Chain (1685) -- 5.6 Conclusion: Knowledge on the Move -- 6 Lithology -- 6.1 On Petrified Snakes and Crabs -- 6.2 Curious Lithology -- 6.3 On Moonmilk -- 6.4 Baumann's Cave.

6.5 Objects within Objects -- 6.6 Fossils on the Beaches of Kiel -- 6.7 Shell Game -- 6.8 Conclusion -- 7 Archaeology -- 7.1 1673-1677: Questioning Thunderstones -- 7.2 Antiquarian Empiricism -- 7.3 From Experimental to Prehistoric Conjecture -- 7.4 Major, Rudbeck, and Möller on Conjectures and Emblems -- 7.5 1692: Peopled Cimbria -- 7.6 Networking Notes, Objects, and the Field -- 7.7 Establishing an Archaeological Approach -- 7.8 Conclusion -- Part IV Spaces of Knowledge -- 8 Experimental Philosophy -- 8.1 The Taxis of Nature and the Itineraries of Experiment -- 8.2 Experimental Philosophy in the Kiel Curriculum -- 8.3 The 1670 Normative Syllabus -- 8.4 Playing with Experiments: Charlatans in Experimental Philosophy -- 8.5 Morhof as Experimental Philosopher -- 8.6 Professors of Experimental Philosophy: Johann Jacob Waldschmidt, Michael Bernhard Valentini, and Wilhelm Ulrich Waldschmidt -- 8.7 Methodizing the Experimental Seminar -- 8.8 Conclusion -- 9 Museology -- 9.1 The Dedications -- 9.2 Unbiased Thoughts -- 9.3 The Alphabetic Index: A Collection of Collectors -- 9.4 Strategies for Engendering Discussion -- 9.5 1679: Great Wealth -- 9.6 1684-1688: Numismatics -- 9.7 1688: The Museum Cimbricum -- 9.8 Difform Objects -- 9.9 From Darkness into Light -- 9.10 Afterlife -- 9.11 Conclusion -- Part V Conclusion -- 10 The Light of Nature and the Uses of Knowledge -- 10.1 Flight Patterns of Philosophy and Practice -- 10.2 Useful Knowledge and the Liberal Disciplines in the Research Disciplines -- 10.3 Desire and the Disciplines Today -- Bibliography -- Index.

In late seventeenth-century Europe, scholars crafted the research university as a haven for critical inquiry in defiance of political and economic pressures. Across new fields, from experimental science to archaeology and museology, academics abandoned established intellectual practices and curated the concept of the research discipline itself.