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Hoe is het toch mogelijk dat de Eckhardts tot dusver vrijwel onbekend zijn?: Een rollende parallelliniaal, een metronoom, een textielpers, een uitschuifbare kandelaar, een windas, een baggermolen, een hellend scheprad, een energiezuinig fornuis; de familie Eckhardt heeft tientallen uitvindingen op haar naam staan. Technologische ontwikkelingen 1670-1830: De Eckhardts bewogen zich gemakkelijk over grenzen heen: zij woonden en werkten aan beide kanten van de Noordzee. De familie leverde een significante bijdrage aan de technologische ontwikkeling van hun tijd – en dat in een periode die niet bekendstaat als een gouden eeuw: 1670-1830. De geschiedenis van de Eckhardts in Nederland en Engeland: Karel Davids doet de kleurrijke geschiedenis van de Eckhardts en hun vele uitvindingen uit de doeken: de successen die ze behaalden, de steun die ze kregen van hogerhand, de hardnekkige tegenwerking die ze ondervonden van concurrenten en sceptici, de politieke, economische en sociaal-culturele omgeving waarin ze in Nederland en Engeland opereerden.

Hoe is het toch mogelijk dat de Eckhardts tot dusver vrijwel onbekend zijn?: Een rollende parallelliniaal, een metronoom, een textielpers, een uitschuifbare kandelaar, een windas, een baggermolen, een hellend scheprad, een energiezuinig fornuis; de familie Eckhardt heeft tientallen uitvindingen op haar naam staan.Technologische ontwikkelingen 1670-1830:De Eckhardts bewogen zich gemakkelijk over grenzen heen: zij woonden en werkten aan beide kanten van de Noordzee. De familie leverde een significante bijdrage aan de technologische ontwikkeling van hun tijd – en dat in een periode die niet bekendstaat als een gouden eeuw: 1670-1830. De geschiedenis van de Eckhardts in Nederland en Engeland:Karel Davids doet de kleurrijke geschiedenis van de Eckhardts en hun vele uitvindingen uit de doeken: de successen die ze behaalden, de steun die ze kregen van hogerhand, de hardnekkige tegenwerking die ze ondervonden van concurrenten en sceptici, de politieke, economische en sociaal-culturele omgeving waarin ze in Nederland en Engeland opereerden.

This book studies the Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin (1548-1620) as a new type of ‘man of knowledge’. Traditionally, Stevin is best known for his contributions to the ‘Archimedean turn’. This innovative volume moves beyond this conventional image by bringing many other aspects of his work into view, by analysing the connections between the multiple strands of his thinking and by situating him in a broader European context. Like other multi-talents (‘polymaths’) in his time (several of whom are discussed in this volume), Stevin made an important contribution to the transformation of the ideal of knowledge in early modern Europe. This book thus provides new insights into the phenomenon of ‘polymaths’ in general and in the case of Stevin in particular.

To what extent were ‘homegrown’ models of urban hydraulic technologies and water management transplanted overseas in early modern times? How and why were they adapted (or not) to new environments and how and in what respects was local knowledge taken into account in this process? These questions are the subject of this chapter. The chapter concentrates on the role and background of hydraulic experts and the contexts in which they worked. The key questions are approached in a comparative manner, analyzing a variety of urban cases in Europe, the Americas and Asia. The first section of the chapter looks at European cities, the next three sections examine colonial towns in different parts of the world and different politico-institutional settings: Mexico City, Batavia and Philadelphia. The chapter concludes with comparisons between the three colonial cases and between European cities and colonial towns.

This chapter aims to connect the debates in the history of knowledge and the history of cities. It is concerned with the issue of how the activities of long-distance corporations in the field of knowledge were related to urban environments. The chapter focuses on knowledge formed in the ‘open air’, such as botany, medicine, surveying, mapmaking, linguistics and administrative sciences, which travelled from extra-metropolitan, overseas areas to cities in the European metropolis. It discusses the rise of Antwerp as a centre of knowledge accumulation and transmission in open air sciences before 1585. The chapter analyses changes in the relationship between long-distance corporations, knowledge and the urban environment in Antwerp after the fall of the city in 1585. It investigates the role of urban agency, long-distance corporations and knowledge infrastructures in Amsterdam and Leiden, as successors of Antwerp, in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

This chapter aims to connect the debates in the history of knowledge and the history of cities. It is concerned with the issue of how the activities of long-distance corporations in the field of knowledge were related to urban environments. The chapter focuses on knowledge formed in the ‘open air’, such as botany, medicine, surveying, mapmaking, linguistics and administrative sciences, which travelled from extra-metropolitan, overseas areas to cities in the European metropolis. It discusses the rise of Antwerp as a centre of knowledge accumulation and transmission in open air sciences before 1585. The chapter analyses changes in the relationship between long-distance corporations, knowledge and the urban environment in Antwerp after the fall of the city in 1585. It investigates the role of urban agency, long-distance corporations and knowledge infrastructures in Amsterdam and Leiden, as successors of Antwerp, in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

To what extent were ‘homegrown’ models of urban hydraulic technologies and water management transplanted overseas in early modern times? How and why were they adapted (or not) to new environments and how and in what respects was local knowledge taken into account in this process? These questions are the subject of this chapter. The chapter concentrates on the role and background of hydraulic experts and the contexts in which they worked. The key questions are approached in a comparative manner, analyzing a variety of urban cases in Europe, the Americas and Asia. The first section of the chapter looks at European cities, the next three sections examine colonial towns in different parts of the world and different politico-institutional settings: Mexico City, Batavia and Philadelphia. The chapter concludes with comparisons between the three colonial cases and between European cities and colonial towns.