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Loath to Print - The Reluctant Scientific Author, 1500-1750 (Hardcover)
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Loath to Print - The Reluctant Scientific Author, 1500-1750 (Hardcover)
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Why did so many early modern scientific authors dislike and
distrust the printing press? While there is no denying the
importance of the printing press to the scientific and medical
advances of the early modern era, a closer look at authorial
attitudes toward this technology refutes simplistic interpretations
of how print was viewed at the time. Rather than embracing the
press, scientific authors often disliked and distrusted it. In many
cases, they sought to avoid putting their work into print
altogether. In Loath to Print, Nicole Howard takes a fresh look at
early modern printing technology from the perspective of the
natural philosophers and physicians who relied on it to share
ideas. She offers a new perspective on scientific publishing in the
early modern period, one that turns the celebration of print on its
head. Exploring both these scholars' attitudes and their strategies
for navigating the publishing world, Howard argues that scientists
had many concerns, including the potential for errors to be
introduced into their works by printers, the prospect of having
their work pirated, and most worrisome, the likelihood that their
works would be misunderstood by an audience ill-prepared to
negotiate the complexities of the ideas, particularly those that
were mathematical or philosophical. Revealing how these concerns
led authors in the sciences to develop strategies for controlling,
circumventing, or altogether avoiding the broad readership that
print afforded, Loath to Print explains how quickly a gap opened
between those with scientific knowledge and a lay public-and how
such a gap persists today. Scholars of the early modern period and
the history of the book, as well as those interested in
communication and technology studies, will find this an accessible
and engaging look at the complexities of sharing scientific ideas
in this rich period.
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