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The nature of the book : print and knowledge in the making
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"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, polit...
"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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- Creator
- Adrian Johns
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1998
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 753 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226401218, 9780226401225, 9780226401232, 0226401235, 0226401227, 1282089870, 0226401219, 9786612089879, 9781282089877, 6612089873
- OCLC
- ocn436148381, ocm38048198, ocn990413658
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 641-707) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Printing -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
- Printing -- Social aspects -- England -- History.
- Books -- Europe -- History.
- Books -- England -- History.
- Transmission of texts.
- Science -- Europe -- History.
- Science -- England -- History.
- Science publishing -- Europe -- History.
- Science publishing -- England -- History.
- Europe -- Intellectual life.
- England -- Intellectual life.