Sociable knowledge: natural history and the nation in early modern britain
Auteur :
Yale, Elizabeth
Éditeur :
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN :
9780812247817
Date de publication :
2 févr. 2016
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Sociable Knowledge reconstructs the collaborations of seventeenth-century naturalists who, dispersed across city and country, worked through writing, conversation, and print to convert fragmented knowledge of the hyper-local and curious into an understanding and representation of Britain as a unified historical and geographical space.