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7 There are many fine accounts available of these processes, but see especially P. Dear, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, I5oo-1700 (Princeton, N .J.: Princeton University Press, 2001), 10-79,101-30; B. T. Moran, Distilling Knowledge:Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005); S. Shapin, The Scientific Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996),65-96; and W. R. Newman, Atoms andAlchemy: Chemistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006). On Paracelsian views of knowledge and the idea of the artisan as a providential agent, see O. Hannaway, The Chemists and the Word. The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975), 22-72, esp. 27, 44-53, and P. Smith, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).
8 T. Coryate, Coryats Crudities (London: printed byWS., 1611), sig. D4r; A. R. Waller, ed., ,Samuel Butler: Characters and Passages from Notebooks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1908), 247.
9 J. Loewenstein, TheAuthors Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 87-
Io J. Buchanan, Linguae Britannicae vera Pronunciatio (London: for A. Millar, 1757), "Pirate."
11 P. Kennedy, A Supplement to Kennedys Ophthalmographia (London: printed forT. Cooper, 1739), 37.
12 There is a more detailed treatment of this complex and subtly managed regime in A. Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
13 G. Wither, The Schollers Purgatory (London: "Imprinted for the Honest Stationers," n.d.), sig. (i)2°.
14 Wither, Schollrs Purgatory, 5 and passim.
15 Wither, Schollers Purgatory, sig. (i)2r, 8, io, 57; S. Wells and G. Taylor, eds., William Shakepeare: The Complete Works (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), 45.
16 J. Milton, Areopagitica (London: n.p., 1644); G. Winstanley, The Law of Freedom and Other Writings, ed. C. Hill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 280-81, 291. Compare the republican soldier and printer John Streater, inA Glympse of that Jewel, Judicial, Just Preserving Libertie (London: for G. Calvert, 1653), sigs. A2v_A4r. See also S. Achinstein, Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (Princeton, N .J.: Princeton University Press, 1994),1-70.
17 P. Lake and S. Pincus, "Rethinking the Public Sphere in Early Modern England,"Journal of British ,Studies 45 (2006): 270-92.
18 There is an almost infinitely large body of historical work on the civil wars and the politics of this period. For the nexus of literary and political stresses central here, see especially D. Norbrook, Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics,1627-1660 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); N. Smith, Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994); and Achin- stein, Milton and the Revolutionary Reader. For the problem of public "reason," see M. Knights, "How Rational Was the Later Stuart Public Sphere?" in The Politics of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England, ed. P. Lake and S. Pincus (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007), 252-67. The Presbyterian booksellers' attempt to recreate licensing took the form of an extended pamphlet war in the 165os, commencing with Luke Fawne and others' A beacon set on fire (London: n.p., 1652): A. Johns, "Coleman Street," Huntington Library Quarterly 71, no. , (2008): 33-54, esp. 51-52, andJ. Collins, "Silencing Thomas Hobbes: The Presbyterians and Their Printers," at http://csb.princeton.edu/index.php?app =download&id=11.
19 For a taste of political argument in these decades, see J. H. Scott, Commonwealth Principles: Republican Writing of the English Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
20 C. Blagden, The , Stationers'Company:AHistory, r4o3-r959 (London: George Allen and Unwin, i96o; repr. Stanford,