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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 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...Royal Society Society minutesManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699" ... in the [Royal] Society ... date of publication could override date of registration. Walter Needham made this explicit in reporting his perusal [as part of Royal So...Walter Needham Reginald de Graaf Print: Book
1600-1699" ... [Edmond] Halley's paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge was finally printed in the Philosophical Transactions some thirty years after being read at the [Royal]...Royal SocietyEdmond Halleypaper on the causes of the Noachian delugeUnknown
1600-1699"[John] Martyn revealed sheets of the [Philosophical] Transactions [containing Henry Oldenburg's remarks on Robert Hooke's Description of Helioscopes] to Hooke as they we...Robert Hooke Henry Oldenburgreview of Robert Hooke, Description of HelioscopesPrint: Serial / periodical, newly printed sheets
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
1600-1699"Foremost among ... [John Flamsteed's] critics was ... [Robert] Hooke, whose Cometa Flamsteed read with disdain ... [suggesting] that Hooke's prescriptions for astronomic...John Flamsteed Robert HookeCometaPrint: Book
1600-1699"[Isaac] Newton had gained international renown following the publication of his Principia in 1679 ... [attaining] something of the status of a demi-god. 'Does he eat an...anon Isaac NewtonPhilosophiae Naturalis Principia MathematicaPrint: Book
1600-1699"When [Isaac] Newton arrived at Greenwich in September 1694, the astronomer [John Flamsteed] showed him 157 lunar positions calculated at the observatory ... Newton asked...Isaac Newton John Flamsteedastronomical calculations (lunar positions)Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699[Marginalia]: 5 pp of ms notes on the original binding pages, some difficult to decipher. Appear to be recipes eg 'Take a reed ..orke[?], plurke him quirk then/ slitt him...Andrew Greirson Nicholas CulpeperPharmacopoeia LondinensisPrint: Book
1600-1699[Marginalia]: brief ink additions to some 6 pp of the text e.g p.57 against XXXVIII is the note 'This act is ... to be payed from imported commodities ...'; p. 49 against...Johannes [ie John] Chrystie John MiddletonThe laws and acts of the first ParliamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'after, I passed the afternone with Litle readinge because of my secknes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at night I went to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at my accustomed time I went to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I rose early this morning, and looked over and corrected my brother John's speech which he is to make the next Apposition'Samuel Pepys John Pepys[speech]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as ...Samuel Pepys John Pepys[speech]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Pontificale romanum Clementis VIII, part 2Print: Book
1600-1699'Back I went by Mr Downing's order, and stayed there till 12 a-clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings; but he came not, so I stayed all alone reading t...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'I called at St Paul's churchyard, where I bought Buxtorfes Hebrew Grammar and read a declaration of the gentlemen of Northamptonshire - which came out this afternoon.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]The humble address and hearty desires of the gentl...Print: Broadsheet
1600-1699'In the morning up early and wrote another [character], my wife lying in bed and reading to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in "Polixandre".'Elizabeth Pepys Martin le Roy de GombervillePolexandrePrint: Book


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