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Author Johns, Adrian, author.

Title The nature of the book : print and knowledge in the making / Adrian Johns.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1998].
©1998
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 753 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 641-707) and index.
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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Subject Printing -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
Printing -- Social aspects.
Europe.
History.
Printing.
Printing -- Social aspects -- England -- History.
England.
Books -- Europe -- History.
Books.
Books -- England -- History.
Europe -- Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
England -- Intellectual life.
Transmission of texts.
Transmission of texts.
Science -- Europe -- History.
Science.
Science -- England -- History.
Science publishing -- Europe -- History.
Science publishing.
Science publishing -- England -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books -- History.
Other Form: Print version: Johns, Adrian. Nature of the book. Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1998 9780226401225 (DLC) 97047252 (OCoLC)38048198
ISBN 9780226401232 (electronic book : Adobe Digital Editions)
0226401235 (electronic book : Adobe Digital Editions)
9780226401218
0226401219
0226401219
0226401227
9780226401225

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