Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 2008-2 No 55-2, 2008/2 - pagesPages 7 to 18Science and World-Cities in the 16th and 18th CenturiesBy Antonella Romano, Stéphane Van DammePages 19 to 42Amsterdam: A Knowledge Warehouse in the 17th CenturyBy Harold J. CookPages 43 to 69Beijing at the Beginning of the Qing Dynasty: Imperial Knowledge, Capital and Information Relay of the Paris Royal Academy of SciencesBy Catherine JamiPages 70 to 100Settling Differences, Managing Difference: The Urban and Intellectual Dynamics in Eighteenth-Century CalcuttaBy Kapil RajPages 101 to 120Rome, a Seat of Knowledge of Post-Tridentine CatholicityBy Antonella RomanoPages 121 to 151Knowledge Capital, Colonial Capital: Colonial Science and Knowledge in Paris in the 17th and 18th CenturiesBy François RegourdPages 152 to 181The Greatness of EdinburghBy Stéphane Van DammePages 183 to 218ReviewsBy Christophe Duhamelle