Danube (Panther)
by Claudio Magris · 10 Jan 2011 · 459pp · 154,280 words
is a grotesque parable of the delirium of the intelligence which destroys life, a terrible picture of the lack of love and of bewilderment. The republic of letters, with its benign historical approach, was the book’s ideal mediator, but it rejected the work for the most obvious reason – the absolute and radical
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their anticipated patrons. It was as patently insufficient a vision of the public library as Mazarin’s lofty and limited invitation to scholars of the Republic of Letters to inspect the treasures he had assembled in his library in Paris. Neither would have an enduring future. A Contested Inheritance The origins of the
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manuscripts taken by Sixtinus had not been seen since. One can imagine that news of his death in 1649 spread like wildfire throughout the international Republic of Letters. The books did not come to the market immediately: it took some time to identify the heir to the estate. Luckily the man in question
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men’ of Europe, whether dead (such as Bacon, Harvey, Galileo and Descartes) or alive (they named Robert Boyle, Thomas Hobbes and Robert Hooke).61 The ‘Republic of Letters’ also included practitioners who lived east of the Elbe and south of the Pyrenees. The Danzig brewer and astronomer Johannes Hevelius, who in 1647 published
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the president, returned every compliment. Theodore Roosevelt, he told his audience, was not just the president of the United States but “a prince in the republic of letters…I doubt not that of the books taken from this library his will rank high in the list. We hail him to-day, therefore in
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the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Politics of Particularism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994); Catherine Secretan, “ ‘True Freedom’ and the Dutch Tradition of Republicanism,” Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts 2, no. 1 (2010): 82–92; Henk te Velde, “The Emergence of the Netherlands
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by John Dickie · 3 Aug 2020
), 25, 1973–5. J.M. Shaftesley, ‘Jews in English Freemasonry in the 18th and 19th Centuries’, AQC, 92, 1979. D.S. Shields, ‘Franklin and the republic of letters’, in C. Mulford (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Franklin, Cambridge, 2008. Ev. Ph. Shirley, ‘Remarkable Clubs and Societies, 1748’, Notes and Queries, 27 July
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. P. Friedland, Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France, Oxford, 2012. G. Giarrizzo, Massoneria e illuminismo, Venice, 1994. D. Goodman, The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment, Ithaca, NY, 1994. On Guillotin’s Masonry, passim. R.F. Gould, The Concise History of Freemasonry, revised by
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. Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, February 22, 1787, PTJ, 11:174–75; Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, January 30 and February 5, 1787, in The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Madison, 1776–1826, ed. James Morton Smith, 3 vols. (New York: Norton, 1994), 1:461; Burstein and Isenberg, Madison
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the high postage. A century later, the combination of the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment, which encouraged the exchange of ideas in a so-called republic of letters, had induced other European nations to follow suit. These posts, however, were not public services in the modern sense of amenities provided by a government
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by Deirdre N. McCloskey · 15 Nov 2011 · 1,205pp · 308,891 words
historian Joel Mokyr in a new book chronicles the improvements in communication and the welcoming of novelties that made for a freewheeling and largely egalitarian Republic of Letters after 1500, and especially after 1600.3 The outcome of such rhetorical developments was a technological explosion, especially after 1800, that radically improved on Europe
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letters as news, of price currents or whatever; and letter-carrying improved in the sixteenth and especially the seventeenth centuries. The improved post created a Republic of Letters, in which a remote Benjamin Franklin could enter into scientific correspondence with Julien-David LeRoy in France. It was combined with the grammar-school movement
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; neo-institutionalism, 122; patents during Industrial Revolution, 133; potatoes in Ireland, 16, 652n29; predictability of technology, 107; pronunciation of name, 651n3; psychology vs. sociology, 473; Republic of letters, from liberalism, xv, 392; rule of law, 112; science and economy, 462, 505, 506, 517; some force of institutions, 664n7; technical elite as cause, xxvii
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la Galette, 590 rent seeking: in Germanic society, 450; obstacles to, North, Wallis, and Weingast on, 465; in poor countries, 535. See also zero-sum Republic of Letters and Science, 129. See also Mokyr, Joel resources: importance of, 66; resource theory of international relations, 482 Reuther, Walter: automation, 56 rhetoric, chap. 67; in
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jail; Sinclair received a shorter sentence for contempt of Congress and jury tampering. V. Berry had a sharp nose for what was doing in the republic of letters; the close friend, as we have seen, of Edith Wharton and Marcel Proust, he lived to see the Lost Generation of the Jazz Age before
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