Evidence: | Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series of huge figures in the sky," including "that of an old man with a long beard ... [who] made a number of gestures with his arm," also noting More's theory as to the origin of this figure:
"He had been reading Ptolemy's Geographia the evening before, and seeing a particular iconographic figure on the engraved frontispiece, 'my fancy it seems having laid hold on his venerable beard, drew in thereby the whole scene of things that presented themselves to me in my sleep." |
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Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1638 and 1640 | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Henry More |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Ptolemy |
Title: | Geographia |
Genre: | Classics, Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 6213 | |
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: | 419-21 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998), p. 419-21, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6213, accessed: 02 May 2024 |
See p.420 of source for reproduction of frontispiece to contemporary (1618) edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, featuring bearded figure as described by More. |
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