This article offers a study of Johann Christoph Gottsched’s translation(s) of Bernard de Fontenelle’s Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1686). It examines the actions Gottsched performed on a...

Translating a Plurality of Worlds: What can the processes of translating an astronomical bestseller tell us about the circulation of knowledge in Enlightenment Europe?

This article offers a revised interpretation of the Scottish republican thinker and political activist Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun’s views on the issue of militias and standing armies. Reconstructin...

Set within the framework of international intellectual history, the present article focusses on the propaganda campaign undertaken by the Company of Scotland to prove the legality of its settlement...