The nature of the book : print and knowledge in the making / / Adrian Johns
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| Autore: |
Johns Adrian
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| Titolo: |
The nature of the book : print and knowledge in the making / / Adrian Johns
|
| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, Ill. : , : University of Chicago Press, , 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (778 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 686.09 |
| 686.2/094 | |
| 686.2094 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Printing - Social aspects - Europe - History |
| Printing - Social aspects - England - History | |
| Books - Europe - History | |
| Books - England - History | |
| Transmission of texts | |
| Science - Europe - History | |
| Science - England - History | |
| Science publishing - Europe - History | |
| Science publishing - England - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Europe Intellectual life |
| England Intellectual life | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | print culture, printing, bookmaking, publishing, books, knowledge, dissemination, information technology, nonfiction, history, media, credibility, authority, propriety, politics, censorship, john streater, republicanism, faust, piracy, copyright, intellectual property, authorship, restoration, natural philosophy, historia coelestis britannica, isaac newton, flamsteed, literature, science |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 641-707) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 wholeshome 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 pirartes: 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 Coelestis Britannica. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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." -- Publisher's description. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The nature of the book |
| ISBN: | 1282089870 |
| 9786612089879 | |
| 0226401235 | |
| 9781282089877 | |
| 6612089873 | |
| 9780226401232 | |
| 0226401219 | |
| 9780226401218 | |
| 0226401227 | |
| 9780226401225 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248038403316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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ACLS Fellows’ publications.