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[>] "no man [may] walke": Quoted in G. T. Salusbury-Jones, Street Life in Medieval England (Sussex, Eng.: Harvester Press, 1975), p. 139.
"Let no one be so bold": Quoted in Verdon, Night in the Middle Ages, p. 80.
[>] "It has been said": Luckiesh, Artificial Light, p. 153.
[>] "On the twenty-sixth day": Quoted in Verdon, Night in the Middle Ages, p. 124.
"A man would thincke": Quoted in Ekirch, At Day's Close, p. 71.
[>] "a lamp that waits": Gaston Bachelard, The Flame of a Candle, trans. Joni Caldwell (Dallas: Dallas Institute Publications, 1988), pp. 71–72.
"On 1 December": Quoted in Schivelbush, Disenchanted Night, pp. 90–91.
"the magistrates": Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 111.
28 "totally inadequate to dispel": William Sidney, England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social History of the Times, vol. 1 (London: Ward & Downey, 1892), p. 15.
[>] "The light, such as it was": Ibid., pp 14–15.
"greasy clodhopping fellows": Ibid., p. 15.
"Another thing; they might": Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Panorama of Paris, ed. Jeremy D. Popkin (University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 1999), p. 43.
"Cautious citizens in Birmingham": Tuan, "The City," p. 10.
"that as the fear": Ibid.
[>] "in Vienna in 1688": Craig Koslofsky, "Court Culture and Street Lighting in Seventeenth-Century Europe," Journal of Urban History 28, no. 6 (September 2002): 760.
"the streets after ten": Mercier, Panorama of Paris, p. 132.
[>] "was an undertaking": Sidney, England and the English, p. 15.
"a custom, both in ancient": Leone di Somi, Dialogues on Stage Affairs, quoted in Frederick Penzel, Theatre Lighting Before Electricity (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1978), p. 7.
[>] "Until he himself": William J. Lawrence, Old Theatre Days and Ways (New York: Benjamin Bloom, 1968), p. 130.
"These beautiful lights": Johannes Neiner, quoted in Koslofsky,
"Court Culture and Street Lighting," p. 751.
"Night falls": Mercier, Panorama of Paris, p. 95.
[>] "In the old days": Ibid., p. 41.
"I have known fogs": Ibid., pp. 133–34.
"The darkness that spread": Schivelbush, Disenchanted Night, p. 106.
[>] "the clanking of its huge axe": Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History (New York: Modern Library, n.d.), p. 625.
"In the summer of 1789": Schivelbush, Disenchanted Night, p. 100.
"Originally, this word": Mercier, quoted ibid.
"the gaunt scarecrows": Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (New York: Signet, 1997), p. 39.
"not infrequently, the hapless": Quoted in Schivelbush, Disenchanted Night, pp. 90–91.
"whirled across the Place": Carlyle, The French Revolution, p. 164.
35 "the order of nature": Philip Balthasar Sinold, quoted in Koslofsky, "Court Culture and Street Lighting," p. 746.
"now [opened] hardly": Friedrich Justin Bertuch, quoted in Koslofsky, "Court Culture and Street Lighting," p. 744.
[>] "The city lives": Richard Eder, "New York," in "Cities in Winter," Saturday Review, January 8, 1977, p. 25.
"not a small New York": Elizabeth Hardwick, "Boston," in A View of My Own: Essays in Literature and Society (London: William Heinemann, 1964), p. 151.
CHAPTER 3: LANTERNS AT SEA
[>] "more scarce than": Herman Melville, Moby Dick (New York: Penguin Books, 1992), p. 466.
"The oil is hissing": J. Ross Browne, quoted in Richard Ellis, Men and Whales (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991), p. 198.
[>] "When the flesh": From Arrian's description of the conquests of Alexander the Great, quoted ibid., p. 33.
[>] "When they come within": Levi Whitman, quoted in James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz, The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony (New York: Anchor Books, 2001), p. 248.
"The respiratory canal": William Davis, Nimrod of the Sea, quoted in Alexander Starbuck, History of the American Whale Fishery (Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1989),