… second half of the seventeenth century there had been two ways of disseminating scientific knowledge. The first was in books, but books were long to produce, both in terms of writing them and then getting them through the publication process, and they …
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Republic of Letters
[ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… ideas, new literary and philosophical manuscripts, and political news and pamphlets. 5 As Edelstein et al. put it, ‘If books and journals were the culminating products of the Republic of Letters, conversation was its lifeblood— and those …
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… as melancholy. ‘ 4 4 . Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, ed. Holbrook Jackson (New York: New York Review of Books, 2001), ‘The Author’s Abstract of Melancholy’, p. 11. Part of what is identified here is a strongly self-indulgent …
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Erasmus Darwin
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… dark Satanic Mills?'. David Erdman (ed.), The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake (New York and London: Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1988), p. 95. However, Darwin’s network of sociability extended far beyond the boundaries of the …
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… century, popular among well-to-do families, was the establishing of a library in the house which would be filled with books. These might not necessarily be read but would confer status on the home, while the room would be used for …
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