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Sociable knowledge : natural history and the nation in early modern Britain /
Working with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and recombined their words, sometimes over a period of many years, before fixing them in printed form. They built up their stocks of papers by sharing these mat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015. |
| Colección: | Material texts.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. "A whole and perfect bodie and book" : constructing the human and natural history of Britain
- 1. "This book doth not shew you a telescope, but a mirror" : the topographical Britain in print
- 2. Putting texts, things, and people in motion : learned correspondence in action
- 3. Natural history "hardly can bee done by letters" : conversation, writing, and the making of natural knowledge
- 4. John Aubrey's Naturall historie of Wiltshire : a case study in scribal collaboration
- 5. Publics of letters : printing for (and through) correspondence
- 6. "The manuscripts flew about like butterflies" : self-archiving and the pressures of history
- Conclusion. Paper Britannias.