Sociable knowledge : natural history and the nation in early modern Britain / Elizabeth Yale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yale, Elizabeth, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Material texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Natural history.

Natural history correspondence--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Natural history correspondence.

Communication in learning and scholarship--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Communication in learning and scholarship.

Naturalists--Archives.

Naturalists.

Topographical surveying--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Topographical surveying.

Topographical surveying--Political aspects--Great Britain.

Natural history--Great Britain--Historiography.

Natural history literature--Great Britain.

Natural history literature.

Historiography.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

viii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Contents:

Introduction: "A Whole and Perfect Bodie and Book": Constructing the Human and Natural History of Britain

"This Book Doth Not Shew You a Telescope, but a Mirror": The Topographical Britain in Print

Putting Texts, Things, and People in Motion: Learned Correspondence in Action

Natural History "Hardly Can Bee Done By Letters": Conversation, Writing, and the Making of Natural Knowledge

John Aubrey's Naturall Historie of Wiltshire: A Case Study in Scribal Collaboration

Publics of Letters: Printing for (and Through) Correspondence

"The Manuscripts Flew About like Butterflies": Self-Archiving and the Pressures of History.

Notes:

Based on the author's 2008 dissertation titled Manuscript technologies : correspondence, collaboration, and the construction of natural knowledge in early modern Britain.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812247817

0812247817

OCLC:

911255317