Sociable Knowledge : : Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain / / Elizabeth Yale.
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...
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Yale, Elizabeth, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Sociable Knowledge : Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain / Elizabeth Yale. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015] ©2016 1 online resource (360 p.) : 9 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Material Texts Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Sources -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. ''A Whole and Perfect Bodie and Book'': Constructing the Human and Natural History of Britain -- Chapter 1. ''This Book Doth Not Shew You a Telescope, but a Mirror'': The Topographical Britain in Print -- Chapter 2. Putting Texts, Things, and People in Motion: Learned Correspondence in Action -- Chapter 3. Natural History ''Hardly Can Bee Done by Letters'': Conversation, Writing, and the Making of Natural Knowledge -- Chapter 4. John Aubrey's Naturall Historie of Wiltshire: A Case Study in Scribal Collaboration -- Chapter 5. Publics of Letters: Printing for (and Through) Correspondence -- Chapter 6. ''The Manuscripts Flew About like Butterflies'': Self-Archiving and the Pressures of History -- Conclusion. Paper Britannias -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 materials through postal and less formal carrier services. They exchanged letters, loose notes, drawings and plans, commonplace books, as well as lengthy treatises, ever-expanding repositories for new knowledge about nature and history as it accumulated through reading, observation, correspondence, and conversation. These textual collections grew alongside cabinets of natural specimens, antiquarian objects, and other curiosities-insects pinned in boxes, leaves and flowers pressed in books, rocks and fossils, ancient coins and amulets, and drafts of stone monuments and inscriptions. The goal of all this collecting and sharing, Elizabeth Yale claims, was to create channels through which naturalists and antiquaries could pool their fragmented knowledge of the hyperlocal and curious into an understanding and representation of Britain as a unified historical and geographical space.Sociable Knowledge pays careful attention to the concrete and the particular: the manuscript almost lost off the back of the mail carrier's cart, the proper ways to package live plants for transport, the kin relationships through which research questionnaires were distributed. The book shows how naturalists used print instruments to garner financing and content from correspondents and how they relied upon research travel-going out into the field-to make and refresh social connections. By moving beyond an easy distinction between print and scribal cultures, Yale reconstructs not just the collaborations of seventeenth-century practitioners who were dispersed across city and country, but also the ways in which the totality of their exchange practices structured early modern scientific knowledge. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Communication in learning and scholarship Great Britain History 17th century. Natural history correspondence Great Britain History 17th century. Natural history Great Britain History 17th century. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Cultural Studies. European History. Literature. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. World History. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110665918 print 9780812247817 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292251 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812292251 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812292251.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Sources -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. ''A Whole and Perfect Bodie and Book'': Constructing the Human and Natural History of Britain -- Chapter 1. ''This Book Doth Not Shew You a Telescope, but a Mirror'': The Topographical Britain in Print -- Chapter 2. Putting Texts, Things, and People in Motion: Learned Correspondence in Action -- Chapter 3. Natural History ''Hardly Can Bee Done by Letters'': Conversation, Writing, and the Making of Natural Knowledge -- Chapter 4. John Aubrey's Naturall Historie of Wiltshire: A Case Study in Scribal Collaboration -- Chapter 5. Publics of Letters: Printing for (and Through) Correspondence -- Chapter 6. ''The Manuscripts Flew About like Butterflies'': Self-Archiving and the Pressures of History -- Conclusion. Paper Britannias -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Sources -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. ''A Whole and Perfect Bodie and Book'': Constructing the Human and Natural History of Britain -- Chapter 1. ''This Book Doth Not Shew You a Telescope, but a Mirror'': The Topographical Britain in Print -- Chapter 2. Putting Texts, Things, and People in Motion: Learned Correspondence in Action -- Chapter 3. Natural History ''Hardly Can Bee Done by Letters'': Conversation, Writing, and the Making of Natural Knowledge -- Chapter 4. John Aubrey's Naturall Historie of Wiltshire: A Case Study in Scribal Collaboration -- Chapter 5. Publics of Letters: Printing for (and Through) Correspondence -- Chapter 6. ''The Manuscripts Flew About like Butterflies'': Self-Archiving and the Pressures of History -- Conclusion. Paper Britannias -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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