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Record 6325

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"[John] Martyn revealed sheets of the [Philosophical] Transactions [containing Henry Oldenburg's remarks on Robert Hooke's Description of Helioscopes] to Hooke as they were printed. On 8 November [1675] he came to the review of Helioscopes. Hooke was livid. 'Saw the Lying Dog Oldenburg's Transactions,' he wrote in his diary. 'Resolved to quit all employments and seek my health.'"
Century: 1600-1699
Date: 8 Nov 1675
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
   
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:Robert Hooke
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Scientist
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
 n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Henry Oldenburg
Title: review of Robert Hooke, Description of Helioscopes
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Science
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical, newly printed sheets
Publication details: In Philosophical Transactions
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 6325  
Source - Print  
  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: 528
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998), p. 528, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6325, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

Quotation from The Diary of Robert Hooke MA, MD, FRS 1672-1680. Ed. H. W. Robinson and W. Adams ((London, 1935).

 

 

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