Editor’s letter
Call for papers
Helsinki report
Russian Report

PART I — ARTICLES
Intellectual History in a Global World
The Dictionary of Intellectual Historians: a project presentation (Ulrich Johannes Schneider)

Modern Intellectuals
Donald R. Kelley: The Outside and the Inside (Michael C. Carhart)
Rorty’s Deconstruction of Philosophy (Anthony Onyemachi Agwuele)
John Dewey in China: Yesterday and Today (Sun Youzhong)The History of Science – Sources and Interpretations
The Library of Queen Christina’s Physician: An example of the history of medical libraries: the library of the physician Romolo Spezioli (Fermo 1642–Rome 1723) (Fabiola Zurlini)
Les libertins érudits au pied du volcan: l’éruption du Vésuve de 1631 (Sylvie Taussig)

Latest Primary Research
Editing Descartes Letters – Why a New Edition is Needed (Theodore Verbeek)
The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, 1650–1750 (Wiep van Bunge)

Bacon as You Never Knew Him
On Francis Bacon’s Originality (Graham Rees)
The Reception of Francis Bacon in 17th-Century German Philosophy (Jurgen Klein)
Shaw’s Bacon Methodized, 1733: Reading Bacon after the Challenge of German Historia Litteraria (Constance Blackwell)
General Preface to the Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon – Peter Shaw, M.D.
Appendix to the Second Part of the Instauration

PART II — ANNOUNCEMENTS
Conference Announcements
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting
The Varieties of Analysis: Conceptions of Analysis in the History of Philosophy
Philosophy and Historiography
Past Conference Reports
Scientia in the Early Modern Period
James Ussher and the Republic of Letters
Reputations: Hobbes, Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke
Petrarch (1304–1374) Translations, Interpretations and Appropriations Through the Ages
Fermo and the History of Medicine: the cultural activities history, culture, personages and daily life in the 17th–18th century
Mechanics and Cosmology
Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Thought
Interpretations of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
Proof and persuasion: natural philosophy and its audience; 1200–1750

Book Announcements
Jean Fernel’s On the Hidden Causes of Things: with an edition and translation of De abditis rerum causis by John M. Forrester (John Henry)
The Long Duree: Civilization and its Contents (Bruce Mazlish)
Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy
(Cary J. Nederman)
The Value of Creativity: The Origins and Emergence of a Modern Belief (John Hope Mason)
Natural Law and Calvinist Political Theory (L.S. Koetsier)
Origins and the Enlightenment: Aesthetic Epistemology from Descartes to Kant (Catherine Labio)
Re-enacting the Past: Essays on the Evolution of Modern English Historiography (Joseph M. Levine)
The Brain Takes Shape: an early history (Robert L. Martensen)
The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, 1650–1750 (Wiep van Bunge)
Mapping the World of Learning: The Polyhistor of Daniel Georg Morhof (Françoise Waquet)
From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany (Richard Weikart)

Book Reviews
Anna De Pace, La scepsi, il sapere e l’anima. Dissonanze nella cerchia laurenziana Milan (Letizia Panizza)
A. Lamarra, R. Palaia, P. Pimpinella, Le prime traduzioni della ‘Monadologie’ di Leibniz (1720–1721). Introduzione storico-critica, sinossi dei testi, concordanze contrastive (Hans Poser)
K.J.P. Lowe, Nuns’ Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy (Camilla Russell)