That would be great, thank you!

The question I asked is more about how scholars of the seventeenth century envisioned the history of knowledge.

Thank you! I am revising my book manuscript so I just wanted to share this challenge for brainstorming!

Yes! Thank you!

I like that phrase!

Yes; so I think there were at least three kinds of historical thinking in the 17th century: one that thinks about lost and found, the other is more about novelties; and the last one is about writing world histories of knowledge like appreciating Arabic science, for example.

But also invention was not innovation because they thought they were rediscovering. So this is the tricky part…

But what about “lost and found” discourse? Like they were not “inventing” but “rediscovering?”

And I’d say in the 17th century, but there has been a disagreement :)

The argument, I think, is clear from the title: we can’t fully understand Ottoman and European knowledge interactions without recognizing the role of uncertainty and the art of making relevance.