Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science
University of Chicago Press, $74.99 hb, 416 pp
History
Intellectual milieu of English virtuosi
by Wilfrid Prest •
With the advent of digital technology and the Internet, traditional paper-based scholarship appears increasingly threatened with redundancy, if not total obsolescence. This may help to explain current interest in the various techniques adopted by early modern natural philosophers and scholars who struggled to cope with the diverse and rapidly expanding bodies of data at their disposal.
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