Sociable Knowledge Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain |
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| Author:
| Yale, Elizabeth |
| Series title: | Material Texts |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-9225-1 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $90.00 |
Book Description:
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Sociable Knowledge reconstructs the collaborations of seventeenth-century naturalists who, dispersed across city and country, worked through writing, conversation, and print to convert fragmented knowledge of the hyper-local and curious into an understanding and representation of Britain as a unified historical and geographical space.
Sociable Knowledge reconstructs the collaborations of seventeenth-century naturalists who, dispersed across city and country, worked through writing, conversation, and print to convert fragmented knowledge of the hyper-local and curious into an understanding and representation of Britain as a unified historical and geographical space.