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Record 16497

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'If you have not read Herschel in Lardners Cyclo ? read it directly.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Until: 15 Feb 1831
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Cambridge
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Charles Darwin
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 12 Feb 1809
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: scientist and writer
Religion: atheist
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Frederick William Herschel
Title: Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy
Genre: Science, Reference / General works
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1831, published in Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet cyclopaedia
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 16497  
Source - Manuscript Other
  Author: Darwin Correspondence Project: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-94.html,

Citation: Darwin Correspondence Project: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-94.html, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16497, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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