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Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain

2016 University of Pennsylvania Press ;ISBN: 0812247817 ;ISBN: 9780812247817 ;ISBN: 0812292251 ;ISBN: 9780812292251 ;EISBN: 0812292251 ;EISBN: 9780812292251 ;DOI: 10.9783/9780812292251 ;OCLC: 932593674 ;LCCallNum: QH21.G7Y35 2016

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  • Title:
    Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain
  • Author: Yale, Elizabeth
  • Subjects: 17th century ; Archives ; Communication in learning and scholarship ; Communication in learning and scholarship-Great Britain-History-17th century ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ; European ; Great Britain ; Historiography ; History ; Language & Literature ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Natural history ; Natural history correspondence ; Natural history correspondence-Great Britain-History-17th century ; Natural history literature ; Natural history-Great Britain-History-17th century ; Naturalists ; Political aspects ; Renaissance ; Topographical surveying
  • Description: Working with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and recombined their words, sometimes over a period of many years, before fixing them in printed form. They built up their stocks of papers by sharing these materials through postal and less formal carrier services. They exchanged letters, loose notes, drawings and plans, commonplace books, as well as lengthy treatises, ever-expanding repositories for new knowledge about nature and history as it accumulated through reading, observation, correspondence, and conversation. These textual collections grew alongside cabinets of natural specimens, antiquarian objects, and other curiosities-insects pinned in boxes, leaves and flowers pressed in books, rocks and fossils, ancient coins and amulets, and drafts of stone monuments and inscriptions. The goal of all this collecting and sharing, Elizabeth Yale claims, was to create channels through which naturalists and antiquaries could pool their fragmented knowledge of the hyperlocal and curious into an understanding and representation of Britain as a unified historical and geographical space. Sociable Knowledgepays careful attention to the concrete and the particular: the manuscript almost lost off the back of the mail carrier's cart, the proper ways to package live plants for transport, the kin relationships through which research questionnaires were distributed. The book shows how naturalists used print instruments to garner financing and content from correspondents and how they relied upon research travel-going out into the field-to make and refresh social connections. By moving beyond an easy distinction between print and scribal cultures, Yale reconstructs not just the collaborations of seventeenth-century practitioners who were dispersed across city and country, but also the ways in which the totality of their exchange practices structured early modern scientific knowledge.
  • Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
  • Creation Date: 2016
  • Format: 384
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0812247817
    ISBN: 9780812247817
    ISBN: 0812292251
    ISBN: 9780812292251
    EISBN: 0812292251
    EISBN: 9780812292251
    DOI: 10.9783/9780812292251
    OCLC: 932593674
    LCCallNum: QH21.G7Y35 2016
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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