Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Basic Search

Advanced Search

Record 5824

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I cannot but urge on all those who are commencing their academic course, the natural study of his delightful work on natural Theology' [p.88] [And more references & comments on the following pages]
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1802 and 31 Dec 1833
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Adam Sedgwick
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1785
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Professor of Geology at Cambridge
Religion: Church of England
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: William Paley
Title: Natural Theology
Genre: Other religious, Science
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5824  
Source - Print  
  Author: Adam Sedgwick
  Editor: n/a
  Title: A Discourse on the Studies of the University
  Place of Publication: Leicester
  Date of Publication: 1969
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 88-91; 35
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Adam Sedgwick, A Discourse on the Studies of the University (Leicester, 1969), p. 88-91; 35, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5824, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

Reading Experience Database version 2.0.  Page updated: 27th Apr 2016  3:15pm (GMT)