| Evidence: | Adrian Johns notes how, long after enjoying the romance of Quintus Curtius when young, "[Robert] Boyle ... found himself suffering 'violent pains' in an inn; reading an opportunely found copy of Curtius took his mind off his condition until it had cured itself." |
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| Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: Inn | ||||||||||
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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: | read in situ |
| Record ID: | 6202 | |
| 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 n.4 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998), p. 382 n.4, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6202, accessed: 29 April 2024 | |
| Quotes from Robert Boyle by Himself and His Friends, ed. M. Hunter (London, 1994) 24. |
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