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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
 
1600-1699"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L...Giles WiddowesLawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall PuritanPrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L...anon ("others") Giles WiddowesLawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall PuritanPrint: Book, proof copy
1600-1699Reading James Harrington, The Common-Wealth of Oceana, Henry Oldenburg "took notes only from the 'Preliminaries'."Henry Oldenburg James HarringtonThe Common-Wealth of OceanaPrint: 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 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
1600-1699"What originally made [Robert] Boyle so 'passionate a Friend to Reading,' he was wont to say, 'was the accidentall Perusall of Quintus Curtius.' This ancient romance of ...Robert Boyle Quintus CurtiusPrint: Book
1600-1699"In Geneva on the Grand Tour ... [Robert] Boyle would continue to pursue 'above all the Reading of Romances,' and would become fluent in French from doing so."Robert Boyle French romancesPrint: 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 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
1600-1699" ... Abraham Cowley ... found that reading Spenser in his mother's parlor 'made [him] a Poet as immediately as a Child is made an Eunuch.'"Abraham Cowley Edmund Spenser Print: Book
1600-1699"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an...John Rogers transcribed sermonsManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an...John Rogers morning and evening prayersPrint: Book
1600-1699"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an...John Rogers The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699"Francis Bishop [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s], condemned to be shot, 'turned open the Bible' and read a passage enjoinin...Francis Bishop The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699"Hugh Leeson [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s] ... was first 'wrought upon' by his wife, 'whom God made the first Instrument...anon The BiblePrint: 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
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
1600-1699"[Meric Casaubon] described an encounter with a work on Etruscan antiquities which he had come across in a Stationer's shop in London ...Casaubon had found its engravings...Meric Casaubon bogus work on Etruscan antiquitiesPrint: Book
1600-1699"[Meric Casaubon] described an encounter with a work on Etruscan antiquities which he had come across in a Stationer's shop in London ...Casaubon had found its engravings...Meric Casaubon bogus work on Etruscan antiquitiesPrint: Book


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