Record Number: 6213
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series of huge figures in the sky," including "that of an old man with a long beard ... [who] made a number of gestures with his arm," also noting More's theory as to the origin of this figure: "He had been reading Ptolemy's Geographia the evening before, and seeing a particular iconographic figure on the engraved frontispiece, 'my fancy it seems having laid hold on his venerable beard, drew in thereby the whole scene of things that presented themselves to me in my sleep."
Century:1600-1699
Date:Between 1638 and 1640
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
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Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Geographia
Genre:Classics, Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:6213
Source:Adrian Johns
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Title:The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making
Place of Publication:Chicago
Date of Publication:1998
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Page:419-21
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Citation:
Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998), p. 419-21, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=6213, accessed: 02 May 2024
Additional Comments:
See p.420 of source for reproduction of frontispiece to contemporary (1618) edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, featuring bearded figure as described by More.
