Book ID: CBB000077051

The nature of the book: Print and knowledge in the making (1998)

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Johns, Adrian (Author)


University of Chicago Press
Pages: 753


Publication Date: 1998
Physical Details: xxi + 753 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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.

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Description 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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Review Eisenstein, E. L. (2000) Review of "The nature of the book: Print and knowledge in the making". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 316). unapi

Review Hunter, M. (1998) Review of "The nature of the book: Print and knowledge in the making". Nature (pp. 534-36). unapi

Review Landon, R. (1998) Review of "The nature of the book: Print and knowledge in the making". Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science (p. 41). unapi

Review Maclean, I. (1999 (Feb. 26)) Review of "The nature of the book: Print and knowledge in the making". TLS: Times Literary Supplement (pp. 12-13). unapi

Review Henry, J. (2001) Review of "The nature of the book: Print and knowledge in the making". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 5). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Febvre, Lucien
Jonathan R. Olson
Yuming He
Hill, Alexandra
Dell'Oro, Giorgio
Constantinidou, Natasha
Concepts
Printing
Books
Printing press
Publishers and publishing
Printing industry
Technology and culture
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
19th century
15th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Places
Great Britain
Europe
China
Bath (England)
Utrecht (Netherlands)
Genoa (Italy)
Institutions
Herzog August Bibliothek
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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