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  • 1.
    Fors, Hjalmar
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    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Describing the World and Shaping the Self: Knowledge-Gathering, Mobility and Spatial Control at the Swedish Bureau of Mines2019In: Transnational Cultures of Expertise: Circulating State-Related Knowledge in the 18th and 19th centuries / [ed] Lothar Schilling and Jakob Vogel, Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg , 2019, p. 107-128Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 2.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    A Comet of the Enlightenment: Anders Johan Lexell's Life and Discoveries2016In: Isis, ISSN 0021-1753, E-ISSN 1545-6994, Vol. 107, no 1, p. 174-175Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 3.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Centre for History of Science, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
    Actors out of sight?: Digital methods and the visibility of historical knowers2023In: Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge / [ed] Johan Östling; David Larsson Heidenblad; Anna Nilsson Hammar, Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2023, p. 217-232Chapter in book (Other academic)
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    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    From Folios to Files: Evaluating the Use of Handwritten Text Recognition to Transcribe the Protocols of the Swedish Bureau of Mines 1700–18402020Report (Other academic)
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  • 5.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Infrastructural strains on scholarly transnational collaboration in eighteenth-century Europe: The logistics of knowledge in making Thomas Mangey’s Philonis Judaei Opera 1728–422023In: History of European Ideas, ISSN 0191-6599, E-ISSN 1873-541X, Vol. 49, no 5, p. 806-821Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper analyses the logistics of knowledge in eighteenth-century Anglo-Swedish scholarly collaborative relationships. More specifically, it analyses the making of Thomas Mangey’s Philonis Judaei Opera as a long-distance collaborative project between Mangey and the Swedish scholars Jacob Serenius and Erik Benzelius. The early modern Republic of Letters has commonly been characterised as a collaborative communication system upheld by communitarian norms. This description has however been challenged by several recent studies, which have underlined the commercial aspects of early modern scholarly exchange. Building on such studies, this article highlights how negotiations about the logistics of knowledge circulation – of, e.g. shipping and long-distance financing – were an integral part of early modern transnational scholarly relationships. In the correspondence between the three scholars of 1728–42, we find ample practical details of how they struggled with slow and unreliable regional mercantile infrastructures. The strains of these logistical challenges thoroughly shaped the relationships between the three scholars, and would eventually lead to the collapse of their collaboration.

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  • 6.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Mechanicus: Performing an Early Modern Persona2015Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis studies mechanics as a means of making men, rather than machines. Drawing on Swedish sources from 1700–50, it approaches mechanics as an exercise of a virtuous subject, known to his contemporaries as the “mechanicus”. The mechanicus was a persona, consisting of expectations of the performance of mechanics that were part of the social fabric of the early modern Swedish state. The aim of this thesis is to understand how mechanical practitioners performed in relation to this persona, and how these expectations in turn were changed by actors’ performances.

    By studying the mechanicus, I take an interest in historical ways of conceiving of mechanics. Previous research on early modern mechanics has tended to relate it to modern phenomena, such as engineers, technology and industrialism, and mechanical practitioners have been considered as agents of change, who brought traditional societies into modernity. Avoiding such long narratives, this thesis presents an alternative history. By following mechanical practitioners, who staged themselves as relevant to an early modern state, I seek to understand how mechanics was presented and justified in a pre-industrial society.

    The thesis is comprised of four studies. First, I discuss how mature mechanical practitioners imagined the exercise of mechanics to make a boy into a mechanicus. These exercises would nurture an ideal man, encompassing a range of the expected virtues of a male subject. Second, I study mechanics and geometry at the Swedish Bureau of Mines between 1700 and 1750. I show how, from  having initially been associated with the building of machines and subterranean constructions, such knowledge formed the basis of a community of mathematical men of metals. Third, I analyse the letters exchanged between the mechanical practitioner Christopher Polhammar and the Swedish king Karl XII, showing how royal patronage of mechanics shaped both men. Finally, I follow the mechanical practitioner Anders Gabriel Duhre, who first succeeded and then failed to present himself as a virtuous mechanicus to the parliament of the Swedish constitutional monarchy of the 1720s and 1730s. Taken together, these studies show how men imagined, succeeded and failed life as a mechanicus in early modern Sweden.

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  • 7.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London's Communities of Maritime Longitude, 1759–602016In: Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850 / [ed] Richard Dunn & Rebekah Higgitt, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, p. 89-110Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 8.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Reading art, reading nature: How microscopic literature formed seventeenth-century readers2009In: Lychnos, ISSN 0076-1648, p. 91-116Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article discusses how two books on microscopical observations, Experimental Philosophy (1664) by Henry Power (1623–1668) and Micrographia (1665) by Robert Hooke (1635–1703) were related to by contemporaries. These books were read by diverse readers who used microscopic observations in forming their own identities. Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) and Thomas Shadwell (1642 –1692) all read Hooke’s and Power’s books and in their responses one can discern some of the roles microscopy had in early modern English society. What attitude did these readers, who responded from their respective positions, have to the experiences in Micrographia and Experimental Philosophy?

    Samuel Pepys read the books as a way of learning the art of microscopy. He sought to fashion himself as a gentleman through microscopic observations of nature. Margaret Cavendish did not relate to microscopy in the same way as Pepys. She used the books on microscopy in her philosophical critique of the experimentalist programme, a critique based on her seeing the microscopic picture as artificial. Thomas Shadwell’s play The virtuoso depicted the fictional experimentalist Sir Gimcrack. Where Pepys succeeded in balancing experimental practice with everyday responsibilities, Gimcrack was alienated from everyday life because he focused on the artificial world of lice, mites and weeds.

    The article shows how the way these three readers related to the books on microscopy was influenced by their opinions on the microscopic experience as either natural or artificial. Furthermore, it argues that one can discern an interaction between the readers’ gender identities and their microscopic observations. In Pepys and Shadwell/Gimcrack’s case how their gentlemanliness was formed in relation to their microscopic observations, in Cavendish’s case how her critique of these observations gave her a position as a woman who published in natural philosophy.

  • 9.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Recension av Cecilia Rosengren, "Conway. Naturfilosofi och kvinnliga tänkare i barockens tidevarv".2010In: Lychnos, ISSN 0076-1648, p. 315-316Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 10.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Recension av David Dunér, "Tankemaskinen. Polhems huvudvärk och andra studier i tänkandets historia"2013In: Scandia, ISSN 0036-5483, Vol. 79, no 1, p. 150-151Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 11.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science.
    Recension av Johan Kärnfelt, Karl Grandin & Solveig Jülich (red.): "Kunskap i rörelse. Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien och skapandet av det moderna samhället"2019In: Lychnos, ISSN 0076-1648, p. 336-338Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 12.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, History of Science. Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungliga vetenskapsakademien, Stockholm, Sverige.
    Should we write about history, or about doing history?: Analysing the role of methodology in digital history and Swedish intellectual history2022In: Lychnos, ISSN 0076-1648, p. 65-83Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article explores diverging ways of accounting for methodological questions in the history writing of digital history on one hand, and Swedish intellectual history (idé- och lärdomshistoria) on the other. By highlighting differences in how the two fields treat these central historiographical issues, I aim better to understand some of the difficulties of conducting and publishing research in Swedish intellectual history, based on digital-history methods.

    The study is separated into two sections: first, I make a qualitative analysis of texts containing reflexive discussions on method, produced during the early discipline- forming phases of each field. Then, I do a distant reading of peer-reviewed articles in Lychnos published 2005–2020, as well as of a recent edited volume in digital history. This analysis provides an overview of recent discussions on method in these two fields, while it at the same time serves as an example of how such methods shape the way we write history.

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  • 13.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Strangers to London: The transformations of travellers and go-betweens in three mid 18th-century travelogues2019In: Topoi, topographies and travellers / [ed] Stefano Fogelberg Rota & Anna Blennow, Rom: Svenska institutet i Rom , 2019, p. 148-162Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 14.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    The logistics of the Republic of Letters: Mercantile undercurrents of early modern scholarly knowledge circulation2020In: British Journal for the History of Science, ISSN 0007-0874, E-ISSN 1474-001X, Vol. 53, no 3, p. 351-369Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Anglo-Swedish scholarly correspondence from the mid-eighteenth century contains repeated mentions of two merchants, Abraham Spalding and Gustavus Brander. The letters describe how these men facilitated the exchange of knowledge over the Baltic Sea and the North Sea by shipping letters, books and other scientific objects, as well as by enabling long-distance financial transactions. Through the case of Spalding and Brander, this article examines the material basis for early modern scholarly exchange. Using the concept of logistics to highlight and relate several mercantile practices, it examines ways of making scholarly knowledge move, and analyses merchants’ potential motives for offering their services to scholarly communities. As logisticians in the Republic of Letters, these merchants could turn their commercial infrastructure into a generator of cultural status valid in both London and Stockholm. Using mercantile services, scholarly knowledge could in turn traverse the region in reliable, cost-effective and secure ways. The case of Spalding and Brander thus highlights how contacts between scholarly communities intersected with other contemporary modes of transnational exchange, and it shows how scholarly exchange relied on relationships based on norms different from the communalism often used to characterize the early modern Republic of Letters. Thus the article suggests new ways of studying early modern scholarly exchange in practice.

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  • 15.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Vad är digital historia?2021In: Historisk Tidskrift, ISSN 0345-469X, E-ISSN 2002-4827, Vol. 141, no 4, p. 723-732Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 16.
    Orrje, Jacob
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas.
    Vardagens kuriositeter: Eric Alstrins besök i England vid 1700-talets början2018In: Böckerna i borgen: Ett halvsekel i Roggebiblioteket / [ed] Elin Andersson & Emil Stenback, Stockholm: Kungliga biblioteket , 2018, p. 101-122Chapter in book (Refereed)
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