The emergence of open science practices during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was a distinctive and vital organizational aspect of the Scientific Revolution. From those developments crystallized a new set of norms, incentives, and organizational structures supporting cooperative rivalries in the revelation of reliable knowledge. Analyzing the role of asymmetric information in the economics of late Renaissance court patronage illuminates this historical break from secrecy in the pursuit of Nature's secrets, and its modern-day significance.

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