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Intellectual milieu of English virtuosi

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October 2014, no. 365

Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science by Richard Yeo

University of Chicago Press, $74.99 hb, 416 pp

Intellectual milieu of English virtuosi

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October 2014, no. 365

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.

Wilfrid Prest reviews 'Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science' by Richard Yeo

Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science

by Richard Yeo

University of Chicago Press, $74.99 hb, 416 pp

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