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  1. The nature of the book
    print and knowledge in the making
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0226401219; 0226401227; 0226401235; 9780226401218; 9780226401225; 9780226401232
    Subjects: Books; Printing; Science; Science publishing; Imprimerie / Aspect social / Europe / Histoire; Imprimerie / Aspect social / Angleterre / Histoire; Livres / Europe / Histoire; Livres / Angleterre / Histoire; Transmission de textes; Sciences / Europe / Histoire; Sciences / Angleterre / Histoire; Édition scientifique / Europe / Histoire; Édition scientifique / Angleterre / Histoire; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades; DESIGN / Book; CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Book Printing & Binding; Books; Intellectual life; Printing / Social aspects; Science; Science publishing; Transmission of texts; Natuurwetenschappen; Boeken; Geschichte; Gesellschaft; Naturwissenschaft; Printing; Printing; Books; Books; Transmission of texts; Science; Science; Science publishing; Science publishing; Buchdruck
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 753 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 641-707) and index

    Introduction : the book of nature and the nature of the book -- Literatory life : the culture and credibility of the printed book in early modern London -- "The advancement of wholesome knowledge" : the politics of print and the practices of propriety -- John Streater and the Knights of the Galaxy : republicanism, natural knowledge, and the politics of printing -- Faust and the pirates : the cultural construction of the printing revolution -- The physiology of reading : print and the passions -- Piracy and usurpation : natural philosophy in the Restoration -- Histories of the heavens : John Flamsteed, Isaac Newton, and the Historia cœlestis Britannica -- Conclusion

  2. The nature of the book
    print and knowledge in the making
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill

    In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas-commercial, intellectual, political, and individual.""A compelling exposition of how... more

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    In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas-commercial, intellectual, political, and individual.""A compelling exposition of how authors, printers, booksellers and readers competed for power over the printed page. . . . The richness of Mr. Johns's book lies in the splendid detail he has collected to describe the world of books in the first two centuries after the printing press arrived in England.""-Alberto Manguel, Washington Times""[A] mam Introduction : the book of nature and the nature of the book -- Literatory life : the culture and credibility of the printed book in early modern London -- "The advancement of wholesome knowledge" : the politics of print and the practices of propriety -- John Streater and the Knights of the Galaxy : republicanism, natural knowledge, and the politics of printing -- Faust and the pirates : the cultural construction of the printing revolution -- The physiology of reading : print and the passions -- Piracy and usurpation : natural philosophy in the Restoration -- Histories of the heavens : John Flamsteed, Isaac Newton, and the Historia cœlestis Britannica -- Conclusion.

     

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