Article ID: CBB732835170

‘Handwriting is often the Index of the Mind’: Mapping Scientific Networks through the Collections of John Nichols and His Family of Printers, Antiquaries and Autograph Hunters (2020)

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The Nichols family was at the centre of an international network of intellectual exchange. As editors of the Gentleman's Magazine and as printers for learned societies, their printing shop was a clearing-house for the scientific and antiquarian news that fed this scholarly community. Their archive charts the relationship between John Nichols and the botanists who contributed to his county history of Leicestershire, but it also formed the core of collections of autograph letters formed by his descendants. Now catalogued for the first time, these collections provide an insight into the friendships between antiquaries and scientists throughout the Age of Enlightenment.

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Authors & Contributors
Adelman, Joseph M.
Borgato, Maria Teresa
Brock, William H.
Higgitt, Rebekah
Manning, Gideon
Miyagawa, Takuya
Journals
Early American Studies
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
British Journal for the History of Science
Environment and History
HOPOS
Publishers
Springer International Publishing
Cambridge University Press
Presses Universitaires de Rennes
University of Chicago Press
Göttingen Wallstein Verlag
Concepts
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Knowledge circulation
Correspondence and corresponding
Cross-national interaction
Antiquarianism
Social networks
People
Bianchi, Giovanni
Cirillo, Domenico
Franklin, Benjamin
Humboldt, Alexander von
Liebig, Justus von
Sennert, Daniel
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
17th century
Modern
14th century
Places
Great Britain
Europe
France
United States
Germany
Italy
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
Royal Society of London
Universität Wittenberg
University of Padua
Electronic Enlightenment Project
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