Johns, Adrian (Author)
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.
...MoreDescription Contents: 1: Introduction: The book of nature and the nature of the book. 2: Literatory life: The culture and credibility of the printed book in early modern London. 3: “The advancement of wholesome knowledge”: The politics of print and the practices of propriety. 4: John Streater and the Knights of the Galaxy: Republicanism, natural knowledge, and the politics of printing. 5: Faust and the pirates: The cultural construction of the printing revolution. 6: The physiology of reading: Print and the passions. 7: Piracy and usurpation: Natural philosophy in the Restoration. 8: Histories of the heavens: John Flamsteed, Isaac Newton, and the Historia coelestis Britannica.
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