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Knowledge in the Service of the Fatherland: Scientific Culture and Networks in Early Modern Eastern Europe

In the eighteenth century enlightened theorists shifted the meaning of “ Europe” from a geographically-determined continent to a special kind of “ civilization” , which was secular in outlook and was defined “ as a system of states in which the partnership of civil sovereignty and civil society was necessary to commerce and the spread of manners” . In the paper, the author intends to explore the ways which kind of knowledge and how it circulated and was disseminated through different communicative networks within the region of Eastern Europe, and more specifically in the Habsburg Monarchy.

Eastern Europe ; civilisation ; Francis Bacon ; scientific networks

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