 | Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain Subjects: Natural history -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Natural history correspondence -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Communication in learning and scholarship -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Naturalists -- Archives; Topogr; Sociable Knowledge reconstructs the collaborations of seventeenth-century naturalists who, dispersed across city and country, worked through writing, conversation, and print to convert fragmented knowledge of the hyper-local and curious into an understanding and representation of Britain as a unified historical and geographical space. Elizabeth Yale teaches history at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. |
