Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
10.07.2012
Herausgeber
Robert G. W. AndersonVerlag
Ashgate Pub COSeitenzahl
1200
Maße (L/B)
24.6/17.4 cm
Gewicht
3674 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7546-0131-9
'This is a solid piece of scholarship, and the edition will be a valuable, indeed an invaluable source for historians of science and technology and of the Scottish Enlightenment.' Trevor Levere, University of Toronto, Canada 'This is a magnificant edition, crammed with erudite footnotes and background essays.' Medical History 'The historical interest of the correspondence is therefore considerable but the scholarly standards of the edition are if anything even more impressive. Anderson and Jones provide a detailed account of Black’s life and works as well as a forensic analysis of the letters as a whole. Each individual piece is thereafter supplied with extensive background information in footnotes, while a fine biographical register at the end of the second volume allows the reader easily to identify all of Black’s known correspondents. Finally, a comprehensive bibliography and meticulous index complete the work. It is sad that Jean Jones did not live to see the fruits of her labours with Robert Anderson. But this edition of the Black correspondence, certain to be a standard reference source for historians of eighteenth-century science and for students of the Scottish Enlightenment too, will stand as a fine testament to her scholarly powers.' Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies 'The editors have transcribed and printed a total of 835 letters and documents, comprising 355 from Black himself, and 408 from his correspondents who include important contemporaries such as William Cullen, Lorenz Crell, Thomas Beddoes and James Watt... the volumes are superbly edited, printed and illustrated. Some may wonder why a complex edition like this was not put on the internet. I am glad it was not, for nothing can beat the convenience of having the notes instantly to hand, easy cross-referencing and a very accessible comprehensive index... the edition will be an essential purchase for academic libraries where its rich contents will be of the greatest interest to historians
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