| Evidence: | "What originally made [Robert] Boyle so 'passionate a Friend to Reading,' he was wont to say, 'was the accidentall Perusall of Quintus Curtius.' This ancient romance of Alexander the Great had 'conjur'd up in him that unsatisfy'd Curiosity of Knowledge, that is yet as greedy, as when it first was rays'd.'" |
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| Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Boyle |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1627 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Ireland |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | Quintus Curtius |
| Genre: | Fiction, History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 6200 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Adrian Johns | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making | |
| Place of Publication: | Chicago | |
| Date of Publication: | 1998 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 382 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998), p. 382, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6200, accessed: 29 April 2024 | |
| Quotations from Robert Boyle by Himself and His Friends, ed. M. Hunter (London, 1994) 7. |
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