Record Number: 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
Timen/a
Place:city: London
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:review of Robert Hooke, Description of Helioscopes
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Science
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical, newly printed sheets
Publication DetailsIn Philosophical Transactions
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:6325
Source: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:
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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/RED/record_details.php?id=6325, accessed: 25 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).