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Books remained essential, but knowledge increasingly traveled through letters, societies, demonstrations, voyages, and disputes. This account follows the communication networks that connected natural philosophers, artisans, patrons, publishers, and collectors across early modern Europe. It shows how print widened argument, how correspondence coordinated observation, and how public controversy sharpened standards of proof. The Enlightenment emerges here not as reason floating above society, but as a collaborative and unequal infrastructure for making claims travel.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Books remained essential, but knowledge increasingly traveled through letters, societies, demonstrations, voyages, and disputes. This account follows the communication networks that connected natural philosophers, artisans, patrons, publishers, and collectors across early modern Europe. It shows how print widened argument, how correspondence coordinated observation, and how public controversy sharpened standards of proof. The Enlightenment emerges here not as reason floating above society, but as a collaborative and unequal infrastructure for making claims travel. Seller Inventory # 9783565621224