This course explores watershed changes in the strategies used to produce and circulate new knowledge in the early modern world (c. 1500 to 1800), pursuing a global and interdisciplinary approach to understanding the diverse tools, embodied practices,socio political configurations, social and economic networks that contributed to the rise of modern science. Topics to be addressed may include natural magic, secrets and recipes; natural history collecting, empire and observation; human anatomy,medicine and the Galenic body; drug trials and experimentation; mechanical philosophy, androids, and the transfer of knowledge. Prerequisite: One course with attribute G4 including AP or IB credit.