History

Intellectual milieu of English virtuosi

Item: Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science
Author: Wilfrid Prest

by Wilfrid Prest •

October 2014, no. 365

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

University of Chicago Press, $74.99 hb, 416 pp

History

Intellectual milieu of English virtuosi

by Wilfrid Prest •

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

Wilfrid Prest, born and educated in Melbourne, is Professor Emeritus in History and Law at the University of Adelaide and was president of the History Council of South Australia. He is the author of William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century (2008). His edited book Pasts Present: History at Australia’s Third University was published in 2014 by Wakefield Press.