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Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain
ISBN: 9780812247817 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 materials through postal and less formal carrier services. They exchanged letters, loose notes, drawings and plans, commonplace books, as well as lengthy treatises, ever-expanding repositories for new knowledge about nature and history as it accumulated through reading, observation, correspondence,... Working with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and rec... |
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Archival Afterlives: Life, Death, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern British Scientific and Medical Archives
ISBN: 9789004324299 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Archival Afterlives explores the posthumous fortunes of scientific and medical archives in early modern Britain. If early modern natural philosophers claimed all knowledge as their province, theirs was a paper empire. But how and why did naturalists engage with archives, and in particular, with the papers of their dead predecessors? This volume makes a firm case for expanding what counts as scientific labour, integrating scribes, archivist, library keepers, editors, and friends and family of deceased naturalists into the history of science. It shows how early modern natural philosophers...
Archival Afterlives explores the posthumous fortunes of scientific and medical archives in early modern Britain. If early modern natural philosophers ...
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