Sociable Knowledge :
Yale, Elizabeth.,
Sociable Knowledge : Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain / Elizabeth Yale. - 1 online resource : 9 illus. - 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
Sociable Knowledge reconstructs the collaborations of seventeenth-century naturalists who, dispersed across city and country, worked through writing, conversation, and print to convert fragmented knowledge of the hyper-local and curious into an understanding and representation of Britain as a unified historical and geographical space.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812292251
10.9783/9780812292251 doi
--History--Great Britain.--17th century.
--Historiography.--Great Britain--17th century.
--Political aspects--Great Britain.--17th century.
--History--Great Britain--17th century.
QH21.G7 / Y35 2016
Sociable Knowledge : Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain / Elizabeth Yale. - 1 online resource : 9 illus. - 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
Sociable Knowledge reconstructs the collaborations of seventeenth-century naturalists who, dispersed across city and country, worked through writing, conversation, and print to convert fragmented knowledge of the hyper-local and curious into an understanding and representation of Britain as a unified historical and geographical space.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812292251
10.9783/9780812292251 doi
--History--Great Britain.--17th century.
--Historiography.--Great Britain--17th century.
--Political aspects--Great Britain.--17th century.
--History--Great Britain--17th century.
QH21.G7 / Y35 2016