Preface / Giulia Giannini
I Research in Institutional Setting
1 Between Teaching and Research: The Place of Science in Early Modern English Universities / Mordechai Feingold
2 The Academisation of Parisian Science (1660-1789): Review Essay on a Spatial Turn / Stephane Van Damme
3 Asymmetries of Symbolic Capital in Seventeenth-Century Scientific Transactions: Placentinus's Cometary Correspondence with Hevelius and Lubieniecki / Pietro D. Omodeo
II Founding and Shaping Scientific Institutions
4 An indirect convergence between the Accademia del Cimento and the Montmor Academy: the "Saturn dispute" / Giulia Giannini
5 The Edifying Science. Academies, Courtly Culture and the Patronage of Science in early modern Portugal (1647-1720) / Luis Miguel Carolino
6 The Paris Observatory in the Early modern Ecosystem of Knowledge (1669-1712) / Dalia Deias
7 The Early History of the Paris and London Academies: Two Paths towards the Institutionalization of Science / Aurellien Ruellet, Francois Mallet
III Making and Reporting Experiments: Scientific Styles and Publishing Policies
8 Professionalizing Doubt: Johann Daniel Major's Observation 'On the Horn of the Bezoardic Goat,' the Curiosity Market, and the Institutionalization of Natural History / Vera Keller
9 Experiments on collections at the Royal Society of London and the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1660-1740 / Michael Bycroft
10 "I am very much troubled that there is so great an expectation raised of that pamphlet": Publishing strategy and the early Royal Society / Noah Moxham
Summarizing Commentaries-Institutions and Knowledge Systems: Theoretical Perspectives / Jürgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz