Journal for the History of Knowledge 6 (2025)

Special Issue: Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World

Vera Keller, Ted McCormick and Kelly J. Whitmer, Projects in the History of Knowledge. An Introduction

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

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

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

Kathleen S. Murphy, Projects of Nutmeg and Indigo. Knowledge and Ignorance in a Late-Seventeenth-Century Slaving Company

William Cavert, The Improvement Police. Nehemiah Grew on Knowledge, Nature, and Power

Kelly J. Whitmer, Youth, Happiness, and Institutional Projects in the Early Eighteenth-Century German Lands

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

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

Meagan Wierda, Population Projections. Demographic Fearmongering and "Uterine Colonization" during the Age of Gradual Emancipation

Matthew David Mitchell, Afterword. Projectors and the Manipulation of Power/Knowledge in the Rise of Capitalism

Research Articles

Björn Lundberg, Global Knowledge Rituals. United Nations Day and the Global Fifties

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

Alexander Campolo, Loss. A Notion of Error in Machine Learning