-
- Abelard, Peter
- Acton, Lord
- agency
- Ahmed, Leila
- Akutagawa, Ryonosuke
- al-Beruni
- al-Kindi
- al-Tatawi, Rifa'a
- Althoff, Frederick
- Ambrose
- anachronism
- analysis
- Annales School
- anthropology
- archaeology
- archives
- area studies
- Aristotle
- Arrow, Kenneth
- artisans (see also knowhow)
- Astruc, Jean
- Aubrey, John
- Augustine
- authorities
- autopsy
-
- Bachelard, Gaston
- Bacon, Francis
- Bakhtin, Mikhail
- Banks, Joseph
- baroni
- Barth, Fredrik
- Basalla, George
- Bayly, Christopher
- Beard, Charles
- Beard, Mary
- Becker, Carl
- Bede
- Bell, Daniel
- Berkey, Jonathan
- Berry, MaryElizabeth
- Bertillon, Alphonse
- bias
- Bible
- Bierling, Friedrich
- Bloch, Marc
- Blok, Anton
- Bloor, David
- Boas, Franz
- Bodin, Jean
- Bopp, Franz
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- botany (see also Linnaeus)
- Bourdieu, Pierre
- Brand, Stewart
- Braudel, Fernand
- Brendecke, Arndt
- Buckland, William
- Burckhardt, Jacob
- bureaucratization
- Butterfield, Herbert
-
- Canguilhem, Georges
- Carlyle, Thomas
- Cartright, Julia
- Casaubon, Meric
- Cassirer, Ernst
- Castells, Manuel
- censorship
- centres
- Certeau, Michel de
- Chaffee, John
- Chamberlain, Michael
- Chambers, Robert
- Chartier, Roger
- China
- Christian, David
- Cicero
- Clark, Alice
- classification
- Clausewitz, Karl von
- cognitive anthropology
- cognitive archaeology
- cognitive history
- Cohn, Bernard
- Colbert, Jean-Baptiste
- collections (see also museums)
- Collingwood, Robin G.
- colonialism, see empires, postcolonialism
- comparison
- Comte, Auguste
- concealment, see secrecy
- Condorcet, marquis de
- constructivism
- Cook, James
- Counter-Reformation
- crafts, see artisans
- Craig, John
- criticism
- Crouch, Nathaniel
- cultures of knowledge
- curiosity
- Cuvier, Georges
-
- Darnton, Robert
- Darwin, Charles
- Daston, Lorraine
- Descartes, René
- description
- detachment
- De Vivo, Filippo
- Dewey, Melvil
- Diamond, Jared
- Diderot, Denis
- Dirks, Nicholas
- disciplines (see also interdisciplinarity)
- Disciplinierung
- displacement
- dissemination
- distance, distanciation
- Dreyfus, Alfred
- Drucker, Peter
- Dumézil, Georges
- Durkheim, Émile
- Dutch East India Company
-
- East India Company
- economics
- Edinburgh School
- Edison, Thomas
- Egypt
- Elias, Norbert
- Eliot, T. S.
- Elman, Benjamin
- embodied knowledge
- empires
- empiricism
- encounters
- encyclopaedias
- epistemology
- Erasmus
- Euben, Roxanne
- evidence
- examinations
- exiles
- expeditions
- experiments
- experts
-
- facts
- Faust
- FBI
- Febvre, Lucien
- feminism and knowledge
- fields of knowledge
- Fleck, Ludwik
- Florida, Richard
- Ford Foundation
- Foucault, Michel
- Fox-Talbot, William
- Free University Berlin
- Freud, Sigmund
- Fryer, John
-
- Galison, Peter
- Galton, Francis
- Ganguli, Jadu Nath
- Ganjin
- gatekeepers
- Gatrell, Vic
- Geertz, Clifford
- gender
- generalist
- geography
- geometrical method
- geopolitics of knowledge
- Gilbert, Geoffrey
- Gini, Corrado
- Ginzburg, Carlo
- global turn
- Golinski, Jan
- Gorbachev, Mikhail
- Greer, Germaine
- Guicciardini, Francesco
- Gurevich, Aron Y.
-
- habitus
- Hägerstrand, Torsten
- Haraway, Donna
- Harrison, Jane
- Hastings, Warren
- Hawkesworth, John
- Heesterman, Jan
- heretics
- hermeneutics
- Hernández, Francisco
- Higgs, Edward
- history
- history of the book
- History of Ideas Club
- history of science
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Hobsbawm, Eric
- Holmes, Sherlock
- Homer
- Horkheimer, Max
- Hudson, Liam
- Huet, Pierre-Daniel
- Huizinga, Johan
- Humboldt, Alexander von
- Huxley, Aldous
-
- Ibbetson, Agnes
- Ibn Battuta
- Ibn Jama'a
- Ibn Khaldun
- iconography, iconology
- ignorance
- imperialism, see empires
- implicit knowledge
- incommensurability, see relativism
- India
- information
- information age
- information overload
- information society
- Innis, Harold
- innovation
- Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research)
- intellectual property
- intellectuals
- interdisciplinarity
- interpretation
- Islamic world
-
- Jacob, Christian
- Japan
- Jesuits
- Johnson, Samuel
- Jones, William
- Jowett, Benjamin
-
- Kant, Immanuel
- Karam, the
- Kenny, Neil
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Klein, Melanie
- Knorr-Cetina, Karin
- knowhow
- knowledge, concepts of
- knowledge management
- knowledge society
- Kuhn, Thomas S.
- Kurosawa, Akira
-
- Labrousse, Ernest
- Lachmann, Karl
- Landes, David
- Lane, Edward William
- Latour, Bruno
- law
- leaks of information
- Leenhardt, Maurice
- Le Goff, Jacques
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
- Lelewel, Joachim
- Lepetit, Bernard
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- libraries, librarians
- linguistics
- Linnaeus, Carl
- Livy
- Lloyd, Geoffrey
- local knowledge
- Locard, Edmond
- Locke, John
- losing knowledge
- Lotman, Yuri
- Lowe, Robert
- Luther, Martin
- Lyell, Charles
-
- Mabillon, Jean
- Macaulay, Thomas
- Machlup, Fritz
- madrasas
- management (see also knowledge management)
- Mannheim, Karl
- Manning, Bradley (now Chelsea Manning)
- Marchand, Trevor
- Marx, Karl
- Mauss, Marcel
- medicine
- memory
- Mencke, Burckhardt
- Merian, Maria Sybilla
- Michelet, Jules
- Mignolo, Walter
- Mill, John Stuart
- missionaries
- monopolies
- Morelli, Giovanni
- Mousnier, Roland
- Müller, Max
- Muhammad
- Mulsow, Martin
- Mumford, Lewis
- museums
-
- narration
- negotiated knowledge
- Newton, Isaac
- Niebuhr, Barthold
- Nonaka, Ikujiro
- Nora, Pierre
-
- objectivity
- observing
- orality
- orders of knowledge
- orientalism
- Orta, García de
- Ossowski, Stanisław
- Otlet, Paul
-
- Palgrave, Francis
- Panofsky, Erwin
- Paracelsus
- Paret, Peter
- Pareto, Vilfredo
- Park, Robert
- Pepper, John Henry
- erformance
- peripheries
- Playfair, William
- Polanyi, Michael
- political science
- polymath
- Popitz, Heinrich
- popularization
- post-colonialism and knowledge
- Power, Eileen
- practices
- privatization
- probability
- professionalization
- proof
- Propp, Vladimir
- psychology
- pyrrhonism
-
- quantification
- questionnaires
- Quintilian
-
- Radolf of Liège
- Raginbold of Cologne
- Ranke, Leopold von
- Rashomon Effect
- reformation
- regimes of knowledge, see orders
- relativism
- Renfrew, Colin
- reports, official
- Republic of Letters
- retrieval
- Ricoeur, Paul
- Robertson, William
- Rockefeller Foundation
-
- Said, Edward
- St Antony's College Oxford
- Salmon, Lucy
- Savonarola, Michele
- scepticism
- Schleiermacher, Friedrich
- Schlözer, August von
- schools
- Schumpeter, Joseph
- Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)
- scientific revolution
- scientification
- Scott, James C.
- secrecy
- Seinsverbundenheit
- Selden, John
- Shapin, Steven
- Shteir, Ann
- Simon, Richard
- situated knowledge
- Skłodowska-Curie, Marie
- Smith, Bonnie
- Smith, Dorothy
- Smith, Pamela
- Snowden, Edward
- sociology
- Solander, Daniel
- Soll, Jacob
- Southern, Richard
- specialization
- specialist
- Spencer, Herbert
- spies
- Spinoza, Baruch
- Sprat, Thomas
- statistics
- Stone, Shepard
- storage
- Strickland, Agnes and Elizabeth
- Stukeley, William
- styles of thought
- subjugated knowledges
-
- tacit knowledge
- Tapia, Luis
- Tawney, Richard H.
- think tanks
- tools of knowledge
- traditions
- translation
- Trautmann, Thomas
- triumphalism
- truth
-
- universities
- useful knowledge
-
- Varga, Lucie
- Verger, Jacques
- verification
- Verwissenschaftlichung
- Vico, Giambattista
- VOC, see Dutch East India Company
-
- Waquet, Françoise
- Warburg, Aby
- warfare
- Weaver, Warren
- Weber, Max
- Williamson, Alexander
- Wissenschaftsgeschichte
- Wissensgeschichte
- Wissenskulturen
- Wissensoziologie
- Wolf, Friedrich
- Woolf, Virginia
- Woolgar, Steve
- Worm, Ole
- Worsley, Peter
- Wower, Johannes