Treasuries of Knowledge

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Treasuries of Knowledge: Collecting and Transmitting Information in the Early Modern World Colloquium, 8 April 2016 Organisers: Jennifer Bishop, Liesbeth Corens, and Tom Hamilton Early modern people understood collections of information as ‘treasuries’, both in a metaphorical and a material sense.…

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