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The nature of the book: print and knowledge in the making

Adrian Johns 1998 © University of Chicago Press
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  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
ISBN(s)
  • 9780226401232 (ebook)
  • 9780226401218 (hardcover)
  • 9780226401225 (paper)
Subject
  • European: 1400-1800
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  • Frontmatter (page N/A)
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xv)
  • A Note on Conventions (page xix)
  • 1 INTRODUCTION: The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book (page 1)
  • 2 LITERATORY LIFE: The Culture and Credibility of the Printed Book in Early Modern London (page 58)
  • 3. "THE ADVANCEMENT OF WHOLESOME KNOWLEDGE": The Politics of Print and the Practices of Popriety (page 187)
  • 4. JOHN STREATER AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE GALAXY: Republicanism, Natural Knowledge, and the Politics of Printing (page 266)
  • 5 FAUST AND THE PIRATES: The Cultural Construction of the Printing Revolution (page 324)
  • 6 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF READING: Print and the Passions (page 380)
  • 7 PIRACY AND USURPATION: Natural Philosophy in the Restoration (page 444)
  • 8 HISTORIES OF THE HEAVENS: John Flamsteed, Isaac Newton, and the Historia Coelestis Britannica (page 543)
  • 9 CONCLUSION (page 622)
  • Bibliography (page 641)
  • Index (page 709)
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AHR 104.5 (Dec. 1999): 1751-1752 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199912%29104%3A5%3C1751%3ATNOTBP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R
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