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| Τίτλος: |
Magnetic margins: insights from the digital descriptive census of William Gilbert’s De Magnete. |
| Συγγραφείς: |
Sander, Christoph1 (AUTHOR) raramagnetica@gmail.com |
| Πηγή: |
Annals of Science. May2026, p1-27. 27p. 7 Illustrations. |
| Θεματικοί όροι: |
*Marginalia, *Digital humanities, *Historiography, *Reading, *Magnetism, *Magnets, *History of science |
| Περίληψη: |
This essay investigates the reception of William Gilbert’s foundational work on magnetism, De Magnete, through a comprehensive analysis of extant copies of its early modern printed editions (1600, 1628, 1629, 1633). By employing a hybrid methodology combining quantitative and qualitative approaches to readers’ annotations, this study charts patterns of engagement with Gilbert’s text across diverse contexts and intellectual traditions. While celebrated for its experimental innovations and practical applications in navigation, it also elicited cosmological and humanist interests. Statistical analyses of readers’ marks demonstrate a skewed distribution of engagement, with the majority of annotations concentrated in a small fraction of extant copies. This study moreover contributes to the historiography of early modern science by illustrating the methodological potential of combining large-scale digital datasets with close textual analysis, advocating for more systematic, collaborative approaches to the history of reading and book culture. In addition, a near-complete census of copies of De magnete is provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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