Navigating the Labyrinth of Knowledge: ‘Distantiation’ and Narrative Experiments in the Structuring of Encyclopaedic Knowledge
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3 mai 2023
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pensée et culture de l’époque moderne Lumières science et littérature disciplinarité épistémologie Early modern culture Enlightenment culture science and literature disciplinarity epistemology Philosophy PHI016000 FOR HPCDSujets proches
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Richard Somerset, « Navigating the Labyrinth of Knowledge: ‘Distantiation’ and Narrative Experiments in the Structuring of Encyclopaedic Knowledge », Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, ID : 10670/1.w4vh5i
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In the closing decades of the eighteenth century, narratives of exploration were all the rage. John Hawkesworth was paid an advance of £6000 for his 1773 Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere describing the Pacific voyages of John Byron, Samuel Wallis and James Cook’s first journey in the Endeavour. Copies were quickly exhausted and changed hands at black-market pr...