The cosmopolitan as a lived category

Daedalus

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 18-25

  Jacob, Margaret C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 47749138174     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/daed.2008.137.3.18     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. As cited in Thomas J. Schlereth, The Cosmopolitan Ideal in Enlightenment Thought : Its Form and Function in the Ideas of Franklin, Hume, and Voltaire, 1694 -1790 (Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1977), 47.
2. See ibid, and Andrea Albrecht, Kosmopolitismus: Welthü rgerdiskurse in Literatur, Philosophie und Publizistik um 1800 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005) ;
3. cf. Derek Heater, World Citizenship and Government: Cosmopolitan Ideas in the History of Western Political Thought (New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996)
4. and Karen O'Brien, Narratives of Enlightenment : Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997).
5. See also Anthony Pagden, "The Genesis of 'Governance' and Enlightenment Conceptions of the Cosmopolitan World Order," International Social Science Journal 155 (March 1998): 7-15.
6. See E. William Monter and John Tedeschi, "Toward a Statistical Profile of the Italian Inquisitions, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries," in E. William Monter, Enforcing Morality in Early Modern Europe (London : Variorium Reprints, 1987), 130 -157.
7. See Alix Cooper, Inventing the Indigenous : Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), introduction.
8. For recent scholarship on the process as experienced by the Dutch see Harold J. Cook, Matters of Exchange : Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007) ;
9. also Anne Goldgar, Tulipmania : Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007) ;
10. Julia Adams, The Familial State : Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe (Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2005).
11. For a look at the nature of Dutch imperialism in the period and its impact on the visual arts see Julie Berger Hochstrasser, Still Life and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007).
12. See also Antonio Barrera-Osorio, Experiencing Nature : The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution (Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006) ;
13. Miguel de Asúa and Roger French, A New World of Animals : Early Modern Europeans on the Creatures of Iberian America (Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2005).
14. A. Everaerts used "cosmopolitiae" ; Michael Sendivogius (1566 -1636) had his works collected under the title Les oeuvres du Cosmopolite (see the catalogue of the Bakken Library, Minneapolis).
15. The National Medical Library in Washington, D.C., lists a work by Sendivogius as Cosmopolite; ou Nouvelle lumiere chimyque, Paris, 1669 (first edition 1618) ;
16. the Dutch title makes the point even clearer: Cosmopolite, dat is : Borgher der Werelt. Of Het nieuwe Licht van de wetenschap van natuurlycke dinghen, trans. Abba Starkse in Hem (Amsterdam : 1627) ;
17. cf. Clovis Hesteau, Traitiez de l'harmonie et constitution général du vray sel, secret des Philosophes, & l'esprit universelle du monde, suivant l'e troisiesme principe du Cosmopolite [i.e., M. Sendivogius], (Paris : Jeremie Perieret et Abdias Buisard, ) ;
18. Nicolas Flamel, Thresor de Philosophie, ou original du Désir Désiré... la composition de l'oeuvre physique, In Cosmopolite (1618) ;
19. [John Frederick Houppreght] Aurifontina Chymica; or a Collection of Fourteen small Treatises Concerning the First Matter of Philosophers, For the discovery of their Mercury.. .for the benefit of Mankind in general (London: William Cooper, 1680);
20. Eirenaeus Philalethes Anglus, Cosmopolita, An Exposition upon Sir George Ripley's Epistle to King Edward IV (London : William Cooper, 1677), title page ;
21. cf. Klaus Vondung, "Millenarianism, Hermeticism, and the Search for a Universal. Science," in Stephen A. McKnight, ed., Science, Pseudo-Science, and Utopianism in Early Modern Thought (Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1.992), 118 -140 ;
22. cf. Antonio Clericuzio, "New Light on Benjamin Worsley's Natural Philosophy," in Mark Greengrass, Michael Leslie, and Timothy Raylor, eds., Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation : Studies in Intellectual Communication (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). 2.36 - 246.
23. For the world in which alchemists lived see Deborah E. Harkness, The Jewel House : Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007).
24. Margaret C. Jacob, Strangers Nowhere in the World : The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), chap. two.
25. The Spectator, Sunday, May 19, 1711,
26. and reprinted in Ann Saunders, ed., The Royal Exchange, Publication 152 (London : London Topographical Society, 1998), 206-207.
27. Letters Concerning the English Nation, in Margaret C. Jacob, The Enlightenment : A Brief History with Documents (New York : Bedford, 2001), 119.
28. This sketch is reproduced in Jacob, The Enlightenment, 115. The original can be found at Ecole des ponts et chaussées, Paris.
29. Oscar Gelderblom, "De economische en juridische positie van buitenlandse looplieden in Amsterdam in de zestiende en zeventiende eeuw," in Leo Lucassen, ed., Amsterdammer worden. Migranten hun organisaties en inburgering, 1600 - 2000 (Amsterdam : Vossiuspers, 2004), 169-188.
30. Hetgroot tafereel der dwaasheid: vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in denjaare MDCCXX: zynde een verzameling van alle de conditien en projecten van de opgeregte compagnien van assurantie, navigatie, commercie, &c. in Nederland, zo wel die in gebruik zyn gebragt, als die door de h. staten van eenige provintien zyn verworpen : als meede konstplaaten, comedien en gedigten... : gedrukt tot waarshouwinge voor de nakomelingen, in 't noodlottige jaar, voor veel zotte en wyze (n.p., 1720).
31. Manuel des agens de change et des courtiers de commerce, contenant les Édits....(Paris : Chez Mme Ve. J. Decle, 1823), 59-60.
32. Charles Carrière, Négociants Marseillais au xviiiesiècle, vol. 1 (Marseille: Institut historique de Provence, 1973), 228.
33. Archives municipales, Lyon, MS Bb180, fol. 72.
34. MSS Chambre de Commerce de Lyon. Deliberations August 1702. Repertoire du premier Registre ; commencé le 21 August 1702 ; MS fol. 2,1703.
35. Lettres d'un négociant de Marseille àun des amis a Paris, concernant le commerce, third letter (n.p., 1726), 7.
36. L. M. Cullen, "History, Economie Crises, and Revolution : Understanding Eighteenth-Century France," The Economie History Review 46 (4) (1993) :640-641.
37. Archives Patrimoine-culturel de la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Marseille-Provence (CCI), MS D si letter dated Bordeaux, 18 October 1773, "il est deffendu àtous faillie et Banqueroutiers de frequenter notre Bourse..."
38. For English moralizing see Julian Hoppit, Risk and Failure in English Business, 1700-1800 (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987), 164.
39. Archives Patrimoine-culturel de la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Marseille-Provence, MS L v 29, where we are told that the courtiers rented. 20 bureaux, in "une grand, salle au dessous de la maison de Ville qu'on appelle vulgairement la Loge et ou les négociants rassembleur tous les jour on y fit construire vingt petits bureaux qui. entourent de la salle ... les courtiers ... ventes et achapter secrètement."
40. On the importance of the notaries in Paris see Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, "Information and Economic History : How the Credit Market in Old Paris Forces Us to Rethink the Transition to Capitalism," The American Historical Review 104 (1) (1999) : 69 - 94.
41. A detailed account of these events can be found in Louis Bergasse, Histoire du commerce de Marseille, vol. 4 (Paris: Plön, 1954), 621-630.
42. For the printed text found at Archives Patrimoine-culturel de la Chambre de Commerce, Le Sieur Roland, Mémoire àconsulter et consultation par le sieur Simon Roland, ancien premieréchevin de la ville de Marseille et l'un des membres de la chambre de commerce.
43. See the discussion of the attempts at reform in the 1770s in Mark Potter, Corps and Clienteles : Public. Finance and Political Change in France, 1688-1715 (Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2003), 162.
44. For a philosophical elaboration on this point see Pierre Bourdieu, Science of Science and Reflexivity, trans. Richard Nice (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004) ;
45. for more historical examples see Lynn K. Nybart and Thomas H. Broman, eds., "Science and Civil. Society," Special issue, Osiris 17 (2002).