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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Adrian Johns describes how "[Edmond] Halley ... [took] to 'correcting' the copy [of John Flamsteed's star catalogue] in Child's coffeehouse, and pointing out to his 'impi...Edmond Halley John Flamsteedcatalogue of starsPrint: Pamphlet
1600-1699Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's (disapproving) reading of Edmond Halley, Catalogus Stellarum Australium.John Flamsteed Edmond HalleyCatalogus Stellarum Australium, sive Supplementum ...Print: Book
1700-1799Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's reading of sheets 1 and 3 of his star catalogue (submitted for printing without his authorisation, and much added to), apparently ...John Flamsteed John Flamsteedsections of catalogue of starsPrint: sheets
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom  Print: Pamphlet, Unknown
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom  Print: Book
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom booksPrint: Book
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom  Print: Unknown
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1700-1799		Adrian Johns notes 17th-century bookseller Thomas Bennett (d. 1706)'s practice of reading "'Useful Discourses'" to his servants every Sunday.Thomas Bennett "useful Discourses"Print: Unknown
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes how the school-aged Robert Boyle was advised to read romances [incuding "'the stale Adventures [of] Amadis de Gaule'"] as remedy for a "melancholic sta...Robert Boyle romances including Amadis de GaullePrint: Book
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes how, long after enjoying the romance of Quintus Curtius when young, "[Robert] Boyle ... found himself suffering 'violent pains' in an inn; reading an o...Robert Boyle Quintus CurtiusPrint: Book
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes Samuel Pepys's use of printed lawbooks "to inform himself of 'law-notions'"Samuel Pepys books on laws and statutesPrint: Book
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes that "It was [Robert] Hooke who, during his employ with [Robert] Boyle, conducted him through most of Descartes's works; before that Boyle had ... read...Robert Boyle Rene Descartes Print: Book
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes that "It was [Robert] Hooke who, during his employ with [Robert] Boyle, conducted him through most of Descartes's works; before that Boyle had ... read...Robert Boyle Rene DescartesPassionsPrint: Book
1600-1699Adrian 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 o...Henry More Ptolemy GeographiaPrint: Book
1600-1699Adrian 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 o...Henry More Aristotle MechanicsPrint: Book
1850-1899Adult (male) school at Wandsworth held in the prison chapel, 43 in the class, engaged in a Bible lesson: 'Others he commended in a kind spirit for the manner in which th...male prisoners at Wandsworth [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945After breakfast the three maids were called in for prayers. Our uncle who was working his way chronologically through the Bible had got once more to Kings and intoned a c...Mr Bugg The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849After breakfast...dawdling awaythe morning in looking over medical Mss, weighing out powders [...].Anne Lister ['Medical Mss']Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799After dinner 1 hour reading 'Contempt of the Clergy'.Gertrude Savile John EachardThe Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the ClPrint: Book
1700-1799After dinner, garden 1 1/2 hours feeding the foul. Drank coffee. Made an end of the sermon.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book


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