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31 Sher, Enlightenment and the Book, 312-18.
32 [Donaldson], Some thoughts, 3-4,11-17,19-20.
33 [Donaldson], Some thoughts, 9-10,17-19; [Dreghorn], Considerations, 1-2.
34 [Donaldson}, ,Some thoughts, 7-8, 24.
35 Feather, Publishing Piracy and Politics, 87-88.
36 Information forAlexander Donaldson [et al.] (n.p., 1773), 5; Speeches or arguments of the judges of the Court ofKing's Bench ... in the cause Millar against Taylor (Leith: for W. Coke, 1771); see esp. appendix, 113-28.
37 Information forAlexander Donaldson (1773), 16.
38 The principal modern authority on these debates is Rose, Authors and Owners, which is to be preferred to R. Deazley, On the Origin of the Right to Copy: Charting the Movement of Copyright Law in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1695-1775) (London: Hart, 2004). I have a paper in preparation on evidence and history in the literary property debates.
39 L. R. Stewart, The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 166o-1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 260-68. For the origins of this profession in the German lands, see T. Nummedal, Alchemy andAuthority in the Holy Roman Empire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), e.g., 63.
40 [Donaldson], Some thoughts, 8 (my italics). Compare earlier Scottish claims that the Act of Anne was intended to create a standardized version of a patents regime, e.g., in Memorial for the Booksellers of Edinburgh and Glasgow, 2; cf. [Dreghorn], Considerations, 26.
41 A Vindication of the Exclusive Right ofAuthors to their own Works: A subject now under consideration before the Twelve Judges ofEngland (London: printed for R. Griffiths, 1762), 8-9. Blackstone's comment is in Tonson v. Collins, 344; compare Information forMess. John Hinton (1773),10-11.
42 A Letter to a Member ofParliament.
43 Information forAlexander Donaldson (1773), 12.
44 J. Burrow, The question concerning literary property, determined by the Court of King's Bench on 2 oth April, 1769, in the cause between Andrew Millar and Robert Taylor (London: by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, for B. Tovey, 1773), 70, 101-2.
45 Tonson v. Collins, 307-
46 Boswell, Decision, 15,23-24,33.
47 "Gentleman," The cases of the appellants and respondents in the cause of literary property (London: fort. Bew, W. Clarke, P. Brett. C. Wilkin, 1774), 9-
48 [Warburton], Letter from an author, 6-11.
49 P Dear, Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995),151-79-
So [Warburton], Letter from an author, 12-13.
51 An enquiry into the nature and origin of literary property (London: for W. Flexney,1762), 22-23; Tonson v. Collins, 307-8; Information forAlexander Donaldson (1773), 23.
52 Burrow, Question concerning literary property, 35, 56.
53 Vindication of the Exclusive Right ofAuthors 8-io.
54 Enquiry into the nature and origin of literary property, 22-24.
55 The Microcosm: Or, The World in Miniature (n.p., n.d.); E. Davies, A Succinct Description of that Elaborate and Matchlesspile ofArt, called, the Microcosm (Newcastle: by I. Thompson, for E. Davies, n.d.); S.J. Schaffer, "Enlightened Automata," in The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, ed. W. Clark, J. Golinski, and S. Schaffer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 126-65, esp. 146-47; A. Chapuis and E. Droz,Automata (New York: Central Book Company, 1958), 128-31.
56 A description ofseveralpieces of mechanism, invented by the Sieur jacquet Droz (n.p., n.d.).
57 A. Chapuis and E. Gelis, Le monde desAutomates, 2 vols. (Paris: E. Gelis, 1928), 2:227-42; Chapuis and Droz, Automata, 289-314; D. Brewster, `Androides," in Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, 18 vols. (Edinburgh: for W. Blackwood et al., 1830), 2:62-67; Schaffer, "Enlightened Automata."
58 Enquiry into the nature and origin of literary property, 25-27; Information for Alexander Donaldson (1773), 23. C£ Tonson v. Collins, 307-8,310,339-40, 343-44.
59 Tonson v. Collins,