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Creator
Date
2018
Location
Virginia
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xv, 226 pages
Language
English
Size
24 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 356372
Folger call number: QA803 .M55 2018
Folger holdings ID: 504557
Folger call number: QA803 .M55 2018
Folger holdings ID: 504557
Summary
"Reading Popular Newtonianism focuses on the reception of Sir Isaac Newton's works in a context framed by authorship, print, editorial practices, and reading. Using sustained archival work and multiple critical approaches, Laura Miller asserts that print facilitated the mainstreaming of Newton's ideas. In addition to Newton's reading habits and his manipulation of print conventions in the Principia, she analyzes the implied readership of various "popularizations" as well actual readers whose preferences we can trace and interpret based on the New York Society Library's borrowing records. By beginning with the publication of the Principia, Miller revises the timeline in which Newton's scientific ideas entered eighteenth-century culture"--
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index
Contents
Introduction -- 1. The weight of authority in Newton's reading and correspondence -- 2. Tthe attractions of print in the Principia -- 3. Newtonian popularization and masculinity in two poems about Newton -- 4. Extending popularization in English-language editions of Francesco Algarotti's works -- 5. Reading popular Newtonianism at the New York Society Library, 1789-1792
Also known as
Extended title: Reading popular Newtonianism : print, the Principia, and the dissemination of Newtonian science / Laura Miller
Subjects
Related names
author: Miller, Laura, 1975-