| Evidence: | "[Robert] Hooke had been able to read letters in what would otherwise be reckoned darkness, thanks to one of his artificial organs contrived from 'an ordinary double Convex Spherical Lens.'" |
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| Century: | 1600-1699, 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Hooke |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1635 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | letters |
| Genre: | n/a |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 6216 | |
| 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: | 431 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998), p. 431, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6216, accessed: 29 April 2024 | |
| Not clear whether letters referred to are pieces of correspondence, or written letters of alphabet (for testing lens). |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)