Sociable Knowledge : Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain / Elizabeth Yale.

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.

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