The pragmatic organization of controversies: a historical perspective / Gerd Fritz -- The pragmatic organization of the Kepler/RSLN/Feselius controversy on the scientific status of astrology (1609/1611) / Thomas Gloning -- The pragmatic organization of the Hobbes vs. Bramhall controversy (1645-1658)/ Gerd Fritz -- Old and new medicine: the Gehema/Geuder controversy over medical practices (1688/89) / Gerd Fritz and Thomas Gloning -- Thhe pamphlet and its alternatives around 1700: a thread of the pietist controversy (Johann Friedrich Mayer vs. August Hermann Francke) / Gerd Fritz and Juliane Gluer -- Leibniz vs. Locke: a virtual controversy / Gerd Fritz -- Reviews and responses: a controversy about the Biblical canon (1771-1775) / Gerd Fritz and Juliane Gluer -- Controversy and conversion: Friedrich Albert Carl Gren and the phlogiston controversy (1790-06) / Gerd Fritz.