The nature of the book print and knowledge in the making / [electronic resource] :
Adrian Johns.
- University of Chicago Press, 1998.
- 1 online resource (xxi, 753 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
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