Sociable knowledge: natural history and the nation in early modern Britain

Elizabeth Yale

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Sociable knowledge: natural history and the nation in early modern Britain

Elizabeth Yale

Material texts, University of Pennsylvania Press

2016

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Abstract

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

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

Topographical surveying

Natural history literature

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Title: Subtitle: Sociable knowledge: natural history and the nation in early modern Britain
Creators: Elizabeth Yale - University of Iowa, History
Resource Type: Book
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press; Philadelphia
Series: Material texts
ISBN: 9780812247817; 0812247817
Number of pages: viii, 346 pages
Language: English
Date published: 2016
Academic Unit: History
Record Identifier: 9983968392602771

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