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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Material Texts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 9 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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