The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the MakingIn 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. "A compelling exposition of how authors, printers, booksellers and readers competed for power over the printed page. . . . The richness of Mr. Johns's book lies in the splendid detail he has collected to describe the world of books in the first two centuries after the printing press arrived in England."—Alberto Manguel, Washington Times "[A] mammoth and stimulating account of the place of print in the history of knowledge. . . . Johns has written a tremendously learned primer."—D. Graham Burnett, New Republic "A detailed, engrossing, and genuinely eye-opening account of the formative stages of the print culture. . . . This is scholarship at its best."—Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor "The most lucid and persuasive account of the new kind of knowledge produced by print. . . . A work to rank alongside McLuhan."—John Sutherland, The Independent "Entertainingly written. . . . The most comprehensive account available . . . well documented and engaging."—Ian Maclean, Times Literary Supplement |
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Page xiii
... Robert Boyle / 505 / 490 7.8 . Robert Boyle's Advertisement about the Loss of his Writings | 509 7.9 . Huygens's design for a spring watch mechanism / 522 7.10 . Hooke's cryptic announcement of the principle underlying his own watch ...
... Robert Boyle / 505 / 490 7.8 . Robert Boyle's Advertisement about the Loss of his Writings | 509 7.9 . Huygens's design for a spring watch mechanism / 522 7.10 . Hooke's cryptic announcement of the principle underlying his own watch ...
Page xv
... Robert Iliffe, Nicholas Jardine, Stephen Johnston, Sachiko Kusukawa, Julian Martin, Sue Morgan, Oliver Morton, Iwan Morus, Cornelius O'Boyle, Stephen Pumfrey, Anne Secord, Jim Secord, Emma Spary, Richard Staley, Jennifer Tucker, Andrew ...
... Robert Iliffe, Nicholas Jardine, Stephen Johnston, Sachiko Kusukawa, Julian Martin, Sue Morgan, Oliver Morton, Iwan Morus, Cornelius O'Boyle, Stephen Pumfrey, Anne Secord, Jim Secord, Emma Spary, Richard Staley, Jennifer Tucker, Andrew ...
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... Robert Iliffe , Nicholas Jardine , Stephen Johnston , Sachiko Kusukawa , Julian Martin , Sue Morgan , Oliver Morton , Iwan Morus , Cornelius O'Boyle , Stephen Pumfrey , Anne Secord , Jim Secord , Emma Spary , Richard Staley , Jennifer ...
... Robert Iliffe , Nicholas Jardine , Stephen Johnston , Sachiko Kusukawa , Julian Martin , Sue Morgan , Oliver Morton , Iwan Morus , Cornelius O'Boyle , Stephen Pumfrey , Anne Secord , Jim Secord , Emma Spary , Richard Staley , Jennifer ...
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... Robert Boyle , not to mention the first “ scientific " journal , the Philosophical Transactions . Even Isaac Newton's Prin- cipia suffered from unauthorized reprinting . From Galileo and Tycho to Newton and John Flamsteed , no ...
... Robert Boyle , not to mention the first “ scientific " journal , the Philosophical Transactions . Even Isaac Newton's Prin- cipia suffered from unauthorized reprinting . From Galileo and Tycho to Newton and John Flamsteed , no ...
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... Robert Boyle , and Isaac Newton . The Nature of the Book aspires to address some of our founding assumptions about how such successes were attained . To do so , it concurs with much current work in the history of science in relating ...
... Robert Boyle , and Isaac Newton . The Nature of the Book aspires to address some of our founding assumptions about how such successes were attained . To do so , it concurs with much current work in the history of science in relating ...
Contents
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The Culture and Credibility of the Printed Book in Early Modern London | 58 |
The Politics of Print and the Practices of Propriety | 187 |
Republicanism Natural Knowledge and the Politics of Printing | 266 |
The Cultural Construction of the Printing Revolution | 324 |
Print and the Passions | 380 |
Natural Philosophy in the Restoration | 444 |
John Flamsteed Isaac Newton and the Historia Gelestis Britannica | 543 |
9 CONCLUSION | 622 |
Bibliography | 641 |
Index | 709 |
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