Author: Elizabeth Yale

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0812247817

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.