Record Number: 6322

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"In late 1686 [Edmond] Halley ... sent [John] Wallis the original Royal Society minutes -- 'I have no Copy of the Inclosed minutes, which are as they were read before the Society, therefore I pray you to conceal any thing you shall not think proper to be publickly read, and to send them to me again in your next.'"

Century:

1600-1699

Date:

1686

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reading Group:

Royal Society

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Society minutes

Genre:

Science, Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

6322

Source:

Print

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:

485 n.76

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, (Chicago, 1998), p. 485 n.76, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=6322, accessed: 07 January 2025

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Additional Comments:

Quotation from Correspondence and Papers of Edmond Halley, ed. E. F. MacPike (Oxford, 1932) 74-5.