Today we are used to clear divisions between science and the arts. But early modern thinkers had no such distinctions, with 'knowledge' being a truly interdisciplinary pursuit. Each chapter of this collection presents a case study from a different area of knowledge.

David Beck is an Academic Technologist and Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick, where his research interests lie in the intellectual culture of England through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is a member of Council of the British Society for the History of Science and co-founder of Scientiae, an academic society at the nexus of Renaissance/early-modern studies and history/philosophy of science.