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Authors: Adrian Johns
ISBN-13: 9780226401225, ISBN-10: 0226401227
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: May 2000
Edition: 1

Author Biography: Adrian Johns

Book Synopsis

A history of print culture and its repercussions.

Christian Science Monitor - Merle Rubin

A detailed, engrossing, and genuinely eye-opening account of the formative stages of the print culture we now take for granted....This is scholarship at its best.

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	A Note on Conventions
1	Introduction: The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book	1
2	Literatory Life: The Culture and Credibility of the Printed Book in Early Modern London	58
3	"The Advancement of Wholesome Knowledge": The Politics of Print and the Practices of Propriety	187
4	John Streater and the Knights of the Galaxy: Republicanism, Natural Knowledge, and the Politics of Printing	266
5	Faust and the Pirates: The Cultural Construction of the Printing Revolution	324
6	The Physiology of Reading: Print and the Passions	380
7	Piracy and Usurpation: Natural Philosophy in the Restoration	444
8	Histories of the Heavens: John Flamsteed, Isaac Newton, and the Historia Coelestis Britannica	543
9	Conclusion	622
	Bibliography	641
	Index	709

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