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Klaeger, Florian:
Sidereal messages : Print letters in Restoration astronomical writing.
In: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Vol. 47
(2024)
Issue 1
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- pp. 59-76.
ISSN 1754-0208
DOI der Verlagsversion: https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12926
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Project's official title Project's id Cosmopoetic Form-knowledge: Astronomy, Poetics, and Ideology in England, 1500 – 1800 429827737 |
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
Abstract
Astronomy, a paradigmatic observational discipline of early modern ‘science’, relied on epistolary communication for coordinating practitioners across the world, publishing discoveries and theories, and seeking their confirmation from other virtuosi. Epistolary form ‘travelled’ from an individual exchange between scholars, via the print publication of such letters for the benefit of a wider readership, to the framing of bespoke isagogic textbooks. This article explores the affordances of Restoration printed astronomical letters, contrasting their performance of familiarity between sender and recipient with the public nature of the communication. By reference to letters published in the Philosophical Transactions, individual print letters, and letter-books, including Christiaan Huygens’s Cosmotheoros, the article shows how each type utilizes the familiar and the formal aspects of the letter form differently. The print letter emerges as a form uniquely suited for performing individual authority and fashioning an expert community, as well as communicating expert knowledge to non-specialists.
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| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
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| Keywords: | astronomical textbooks; astronomy; epistolary form; popular science; print
letters; Restoration; scientific revolution |
| DDC Subjects: | 800 Literature > 820 English and Old English literatures |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Professor English Literature Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Professor English Literature > Professor English Literature - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Florian Klaeger Profile Fields > Emerging Fields > Cultural Encounters and Transcultural Processes Faculties Profile Fields Profile Fields > Emerging Fields |
| Language: | English |
| Originates at UBT: | Yes |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-7947-2 |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2024 06:15 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Oct 2024 06:16 |
| URI: | https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/7947 |
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