TY - BOOK ID - 85797644 TI - Episodes in the life of the early modern learned book PY - 2021 SN - 9004440089 9004440070 9789004440081 9789004440074 PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Book industries and trade KW - Communication in learning and scholarship KW - Communication in scholarship KW - Scholarly communication KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Book trade KW - Cultural industries KW - Manufacturing industries KW - History. KW - Exhibitions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85797644 AB - In Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book , Ian Maclean investigates intellectual life through the prism of the history of publishing, academic institutions, journals, and the German book fairs whose evolution is mapped over the long seventeenth century. After a study of the activities of Italian book merchants up to 1621, the passage into print, both locally and internationally, of English and Italian medicine and 'new' science comes under scrutiny. The fate of humanist publishing is next illustrated in the figure of the Dutch merchant Andreas Frisius (1630-1675). The work ends with an analysis of the two monuments of the last phase of legal humanism: the Thesauruses of Otto (1725-44) and Gerard Meerman (1751-80) ER -