Article ID: CBB680817776

Towards a History of Projects (2016)

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This introduction argues for the value of projecting as a category of analysis, while exploring the contexts for its emergence and spread as a genre of intellectual and practical activity in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The emergence of the morally ambivalent figure of the “projector” in Elizabethan and Stuart England – initially in connection with confessional strife and attacks on corruption, and subsequently in relation to colonial expansion, experimental philosophy, and commercial and fiscal innovation – provoked defences of projecting that articulated the relationship between private interest, individual effort, the public good, and collaborative ­scientific practice in new ways. German cameralists and French philosophes extended these arguments, while recuperating the figure of the projector, in the eighteenth century.

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Authors & Contributors
Alessia Castagnino
Ampollini, Ilaria
Carmody, John
Wardhaugh, Benjamin
Tega, Walter
Suay Belenguer, Juan Miguel
Concepts
Science and society
Popularization
Electricity; magnetism
Mathematics
Science and religion
Popular culture
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
16th century
19th century
Renaissance
20th century
Places
England
France
Germany
Italy
Americas
Scotland
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