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The nature of the book : print and knowledge in the making

Adrian Johns (Author)
"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." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi051/97047252.html
Print Book, English, 1998
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1998
History
xxi, 753 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780226401218, 9780226401225, 9780226401232, 0226401219, 0226401227, 0226401235
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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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