Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Yale

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 358
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Note on Sources
List of 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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