Journal for the History of Knowledge

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2025 Issue Now Available

2025-12-10

The full 2025 issue of Journal for the History of Knowledge is now available online, and will soon also be available in print. Apart from three stand-alone articles, this volume contains the special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World". You can find the entire issue here.

Dr. Simone Schleper new co-editor-in-chief

2025-12-10

Special Issue 2025 - Upcoming Release

2025-09-18

Current Issue

Vol. 6 (2025)

Published: 2025-07-11

Special Issue

Projects in the History of Knowledge An Introduction

Vera Keller, Ted McCormick, Kelly J. Whitmer

9–35
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Great Designs and Global Colonialism Sir Balthazar Gerbier (1592–1663), El Dorado, and the Transnational Politics of Knowledge

Vera Keller

37–57
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Reclaimed Land Natural History and Seventeenth-Century Projecting, with Particular Attention to Ireland

Ted McCormick

59–77
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Projects of Nutmeg and Indigo Knowledge and Ignorance in a Late-Seventeenth-Century Slaving Company

Kathleen S. Murphy

79–96
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The Improvement Police Nehemiah Grew on Knowledge, Nature, and Power

William Cavert

97–118
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Youth, Happiness, and Institutional Projects in the Early Eighteenth-Century German Lands

Kelly J. Whitmer

119-141
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Regulating the City Streetscaping, Sewers, and the Project of Universal Drainage in Philadelphia

Keith Pluymers

143–162
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Projecting Chemistry in Lomonosov’s Russia (1741–1765)

Reut Ullman

163–187
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Population Projections Demographic Fearmongering and “Uterine Colonization” during the Age of Gradual Emancipation

Meagan Wierda

189–207
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The Nuclear Sea-Level Canal Engineering Feasibility Field Studies and Epistemic Risk in the Darién, 1965–1970

Christine Keiner

209–232
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Afterword Power/knowledge, business history, and projectors as early entrepreneurs

Matthew David Mitchell

233–241
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Research Articles

Global Knowledge Rituals United Nations Day and the Global Fifties

Björn Lundberg

245–268
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From Spectacle to Specimen Exploring Itinerant Showpeople’s Roles in Circulating Natural History Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Western Europe

Eva Andersen

269–303
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Loss A Notion of Error in Machine Learning

Alexander Campolo

305–325
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Journal for the History of Knowledge

Announcements

2025 Issue Now Available

Dr. Simone Schleper new co-editor-in-chief

Special Issue 2025 - Upcoming Release

Current Issue

Special Issue

Projects in the History of Knowledge An Introduction

Great Designs and Global Colonialism Sir Balthazar Gerbier (1592–1663), El Dorado, and the Transnational Politics of Knowledge

Reclaimed Land Natural History and Seventeenth-Century Projecting, with Particular Attention to Ireland

Projects of Nutmeg and Indigo Knowledge and Ignorance in a Late-Seventeenth-Century Slaving Company

The Improvement Police Nehemiah Grew on Knowledge, Nature, and Power

Youth, Happiness, and Institutional Projects in the Early Eighteenth-Century German Lands

Regulating the City Streetscaping, Sewers, and the Project of Universal Drainage in Philadelphia

Projecting Chemistry in Lomonosov’s Russia (1741–1765)

Population Projections Demographic Fearmongering and “Uterine Colonization” during the Age of Gradual Emancipation

The Nuclear Sea-Level Canal Engineering Feasibility Field Studies and Epistemic Risk in the Darién, 1965–1970

Afterword Power/knowledge, business history, and projectors as early entrepreneurs

Research Articles

Global Knowledge Rituals United Nations Day and the Global Fifties

From Spectacle to Specimen Exploring Itinerant Showpeople’s Roles in Circulating Natural History Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Western Europe

Loss A Notion of Error in Machine Learning

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