1657 to 1658

1657 to 1658
Author: John Thurloe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 902
Release: 1742
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

Science and Reading in the Eighteenth Century

Science and Reading in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Markman Ellis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2023-02-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009217194

Science and Reading in the Eighteenth Century studies the reading habits of a group of historians and science administrators known as the Hardwicke Circle. The research is based on an analysis of the reading recorded in the 'Weekly Letter', an unpublished private correspondence written from 1741 to 1766 between Thomas Birch (1705–1766), Secretary of the Royal Society, and Philip Yorke (1720–1790), later second earl of Hardwicke. Birch and Yorke were omnivorous, voracious, and active readers. The analysis uses the Weekly Letter to quantify the texts with which they engaged, and explores the role of reading in their intellectual life. The research argues that this evidence shows that, in the early 1750s, the Hardwicke Circle pivoted from a focus on early-modern British history to a new concern with the reform and renovation of British intellectual institutions, especially the Royal Society.

Pilgrim Edward Winslow

Pilgrim Edward Winslow
Author: Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2004
Genre: Diplomats
ISBN:

Edward Winslow was born in 1595. He was the eldest son of Edward Winslow (Sr.) of Droitwich, Worcestershire, England and Magdalene Oliver. He married.Elizabeth Barker (d, 1621) after May 12, 1618 in Leiden Holland. They emigrated in the Mayflower in 1620. He married 2.Susanna White, widow of William White, on May 12, 1621 in Plymouth Colony. They had five children. He died in 1655 near Jamica.

Fielding's Library

Fielding's Library
Author: Frederick G. Ribble
Publisher: Bibliographical Society of University of Virginia
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: