Yale, Elizabeth., <br/><br/>
Sociable Knowledge :  Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain / 
Elizabeth Yale. 
 - 1 online resource :  9 illus. 
 - Material Texts .
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 
<br/><br/><br/>In English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812292251 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.9783/9780812292251  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>--History--Great Britain.--17th century.<br/>--Historiography.--Great Britain--17th century.<br/>--Political aspects--Great Britain.--17th century.<br/>--History--Great Britain--17th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QH21.G7  / Y35 2016