Sociable knowledge [electronic resource] : natural history and the nation in early modern Britain / Elizabeth Yale

Author:: Yale, Elizabeth
Published:: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Physical Description:: viii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s):

Natural history—Great Britain—History—17th century
Natural history correspondence—Great Britain—History—17th century
Communication in learning and scholarship—Great Britain—History—17th century
Naturalists—Archives
Topographical surveying—Great Britain—History—17th century
Topographical surveying—Political aspects—Great Britain
Natural history—Great Britain—Historiography
Natural history literature—Great Britain

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9780812247817 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

Note:

Based on the author's 2008 dissertation titled Manuscript technologies : correspondence, collaboration, and the construction of natural knowledge in early modern Britain.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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