ENG 204 Lecture Notes - Optical Microscope, Novum Organum, John Donne

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1705: 65-70 printing houses in london alone. Intended to protect the rights of authors as well as to prevent printer and publishing house monopolies. The balance of the humors (air, water, fire) is how health was decided. The humors corresponded to the elements of the universe. Your health and wellbeing was connected to what was going on in the heavens. Ancient and medieval encyclopaedias are of a type called summa . Brunetto latini"s li livres dou tresor [the book of treasures] No sense of the importance of genetics. Possibly: many new discoveries ( humanism /renaissance) that needed to be copied. The encyclopaedic activity of gathering and displaying knowledge couldn"t keep up with new discoveries. Encyclopedia became popular again from the 1600s and on. One the one hand it spread in a huge way through print. Important inventions around the time of the press: gun power, compass helps you to calibrate where you are when on the ocean.

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