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The nature of the book [electronic resource] : print and knowledge in the making / Adrian Johns.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 753 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780226401232 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
  • 0226401235 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
  • 9780226401218
  • 0226401219
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nature of the book.DDC classification:
  • 686.2/094 22
LOC classification:
  • Z124 .J64 1998eb
Online resources:
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.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 655.3(4)(091) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

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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