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Editor's Letter

The Initiation of Research in the History of Philosophy

From Artes to Science; or Does Aristotelian Natural Philosophy Constitute a Paradigm?  The University of Nijmegen's New Center for Medieval and Renaissance Natural Philosophy.
Johannes M.M. H. Thijssen

Meditations on the Book: Libraries and the Bible

The Squaring of the Circle: On the Foundation of a Library.
Werner Oechslin

Biblical Interpretation and the Improvement of Society: Samuel Hartlib (1600-1662) and His Circle.
James Bennett and Scott Mandelbrot

Viewing Intellectuals

Scholars and their Portraits in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
Françoise Waquet

Review of Literature

Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Scholarship of Toleration.
John Christian Laursen and Cary J. Nederman

Guest Essays

The Place of the History of Rhetoric in Intellectual History: The Early Modern Example.
Nancy S. Struever

Gender and the Writing of History: The Grey Cogito with his Fact and Some Very Interesting Women Writing History.
Bonnie Smith

Announcements

Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana 'Dr. Emilio Ravignani'
[internet: http://www.filo.uba.ar/ravignani/introduccion.html]

Cambridge Historiography Group

Further Announcements