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       Sociable Knowledge

      MATERIAL TEXTS

       Series Editors

      Roger Chartier

      Joseph Farrell

      Anthony Grafton

      Leah Price

      Peter Stallybrass

      Michael F. Suarez, S.J.

       Sociable Knowledge

       Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain

      Elizabeth Yale

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Yale, Elizabeth, author.

      Sociable knowledge : natural history and the nation in early modern Britain / Elizabeth Yale.

      pages cm. — (Material texts)

      ISBN 978-0-8122-4781-7 (alk. paper)

      1. Natural history—Great Britain—History—17th century. 2. Natural history correspondence—Great Britain—History—17th century. 3. Communication in learning and scholarship—Great Britain—History—17th century. 4. Naturalists—Archives. 5. Topographical surveying—Great Britain—History—17th century. 6. Topographical surveying—Political aspects—Great Britain. 7. Natural history—Great Britain—Historiography. 8. Natural history literature—Great Britain. I. Title. II. Series: Material texts.

      QH21.G7Y35 2016

      508.4109′032—dc23

      2015022503

       To my parentsJane Louise YaleStephen Elon Yale

       Contents

       Note on Sources

       List of Abbreviations

       Introduction. “A Whole and Perfect Bodie and Book”: Constructing the Human and Natural History of Britain

       Chapter 1. “This Book Doth Not Shew You a Telescope, but a Mirror”: The Topographical Britain in Print

       Chapter 2. Putting Texts, Things, and People in Motion: Learned Correspondence in Action

       Chapter 3. Natural History “Hardly Can Bee Done by Letters”: Conversation, Writing, and the Making of Natural Knowledge

       Chapter 4. John Aubrey’s Naturall Historie of Wiltshire: A Case Study in Scribal Collaboration

       Chapter 5. Publics of Letters: Printing for (and Through) Correspondence

       Chapter 6. “The Manuscripts Flew About like Butterflies”: Self-Archiving and the Pressures of History

       Conclusion. Paper Britannias

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgments

       Note on Sources

      All quotations from early modern papers observe the following conventions: Familiar abbreviations (“Dr.,” “Mr.,” and so on) have been left as is, while most abbreviations of names and words not now commonly abbreviated have been expanded in braces. Common abbreviations such as “wch,” “ye,” “yt,” however, have been silently expanded to “which,” “the,” and “that.” All superscripts have been lowered. Any text crossed out by an author, where legible, is shown with a line through it. Authorial insertions to the text are presented in angled brackets. Editorial comments and insertions are enclosed by braces (a practice necessitated by Aubrey’s use of square brackets). Where dates are conjectural (as in dating of correspondence), they are enclosed by braces. These practices largely follow the recommendations of Michael Hunter as described in “How to Edit a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript: Principles and Practice,” Seventeenth Century 10 (1995): 277–310; and Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), with a few modifications to suit the complexities of the Aubrey manuscripts, particularly the Naturall Historie of Wiltshire (Bod MS 1 and Bod MS 2). Modifications for dealing with the Aubrey manuscripts are based in part on Kate Bennett’s editorial practices in “Materials Towards a Critical Edition of John Aubrey’s Brief Lives” (D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 1993).

      Dates prior to 1752, when Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar, are given in the “Old Style” (the old Julian calendar was eleven days behind the Gregorian calendar in the seventeenth century). The beginning of a new year is taken to be January 1, rather than March 25. When necessary for clarity, dates are given with the doubled year—for example, February 9, 1691/92.

       Abbreviations

BL British Library
Bod Bodleian Library
EMLO Early Modern Letters Online (emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk)
ESIO Robert Gunther, ed., Early Science in Oxford
HO Henry Oldenburg, Correspondence
Hooke, Diary Robert Hooke, The Diary of Robert Hooke, MA, MD, FRS, 1672–1680
ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Pepys, Diary Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

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