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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Adrian Johns |
| ISBN: | 0226401219 9780226401218 0226401227 9780226401225 |
| OCLC Number: | 38048198 |
| Description: | xxi, 753 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : the book of nature and the nature of the book -- Literatory life : the culture and credibility of the printed book in early modern London -- "The advancement of wholesome knowledge" : the politics of print and the practices of propriety -- John Streater and the Knights of the Galaxy : republicanism, natural knowledge, and the politics of printing -- Faust and the pirates : the cultural construction of the printing revolution -- The physiology of reading : print and the passions -- Piracy and usurpation : natural philosophy in the Restoration -- Histories of the heavens : John Flamsteed, Isaac Newton, and the Historia cœlestis Britannica -- Conclusion. |
| Responsibility: | Adrian Johns. |
| More information: | Publisher description Table of contents Book review (H-Net) |
Abstract:
"In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas--commercial, intellectual, political, and individual." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi051/97047252.html.
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