Notes
1 It would be superfluous to include the original German phrase or, for that matter, the French translation, here; for this quote, see instead: Johann Beckmann, Entwurf der algemeinen Technologie, in La technologie générale: Johann Beckmann, Entwurf der algemeinen Technologie / Projet de technologie générale (1806), eds. Guillaume Carnino, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, and Jochen Hoock (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017), p. 37; Johann Beckmann, Projet de technologie générale, in La technologie générale, p. 67, transl. by Joost Mertens.
2 Beckmann, Entwurf, pp. 43–44; Beckmann, Projet, p. 74.
3 See above all Cameralism in Practice: State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe, eds. Marten Seppel and Keith Tribe (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2017).