Elizabeth YaleSociable Knowledge
Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain
Note on Sources
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. "A Whole and Perfect Bodie and Book": Constructing the Human
and Natural History of Britain
Chapter 1. "This Book Doth Not Shew You a Telescope, but a Mirror": The
Topographical Britain in Print
Chapter 2. Putting Texts, Things, and People in Motion: Learned
Correspondence in Action
Chapter 3. Natural History "Hardly Can Bee Done by Letters": Conversation,
Writing, and the Making of Natural Knowledge
Chapter 4. John Aubrey's Naturall Historie of Wiltshire: A Case Study in
Scribal Collaboration
Chapter 5. Publics of Letters: Printing for (and Through) Correspondence
Chapter 6. "The Manuscripts Flew About like Butterflies": Self-Archiving
and the Pressures of History
Conclusion. Paper Britannias
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
