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Harrington, Natalie

 
9783565621224: Knowledge Leaves the Library: Networks Debate and Scientific Change

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Books remained essential, but knowledge increasingly traveled through letters, societies, demonstrations, voyages, and disputes. This account follows the communication networks that connected natural philosophers, artisans, patrons, publishers, and collectors across early modern Europe. It shows how print widened argument, how correspondence coordinated observation, and how public controversy sharpened standards of proof. The Enlightenment emerges here not as reason floating above society, but as a collaborative and unequal infrastructure for making claims travel.

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Writes intellectual nonfiction about creativity, literature, and cultural memory.

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