Thursday, October 9, 2014
Justly Famous 17th Century Books
As Roger Chartier's essay in A History of Reading in the West ably demonstrates, we know far less about genuinely popular forms of reading than we do about the types of "landmark" books that have been praised, debated, and above all collected. We're going to look at four such book productions from 17th century England in class today: The King James Version Bible (1611), Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), Robert Hooke's Micrographia (1665), and Isaac Newton's Principia (1687). Some of the video links are humorous or whimsical, and some are too long to show in class. Watch them at your leisure or inclination.
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