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    Hans Sloane, Samuel Pepys, and the Evidence of a Lost Pepys Library Catalogue by Kate Loveman

    Published 2021-11-01
    “…This article examines the relationship between Hans Sloane (1660–1753) and Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), two celebrated book collectors of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. …”
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    The English wing spinet of the 17th and 18th centuries: with special reference to the extant Haward spinets indtroducing newly discovered evidence for Samuel Pepys' Haward spinet and Queen Anne's Haward spinet by Wilson, Charles West

    Published 2021
    “…Direct and circumstantial evidence is shown to support this conclusion and also Samuel Pepys’ purchase and ownership of this spinet from July 1668. …”
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    Reading art, reading nature by Jacob Orrje

    Published 2010-01-01
    “…What attitude did these readers, who responded from their respective positions, have to the experiences in Micrographia and Experimental Philosophy? Samuel Pepys read the books as a way of learning the art of microscopy. …”
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    Dawbeney Turbervile, MD (1612-1696). by Simunovic, M

    Published 2012
    “…The year 2012 marks the quatercentenary of the birth of Dawbeney Turbervile,MD(1612-1696), one-time Royalist soldier and later ophthalmologist to England’s Princess Anne, the diarist Samuel Pepys, the natural philosopher Robert Boyle, and the astronomer Walter Pope. …”
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    «Let savage Beasts lodge in a Country Den» by Romero Alluè, Milena

    Published 2014-12-01
    “…Close to Andrew Marvell, Richard Lovelace, John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys, for instance, Cowley seems to be torn between Descartes’s mechanistic approach and Gassendi’s ‘animistic’ theories, Republican ideals and monarchic values, classic culture and modern science: the poet celebrates and worships the natural world in its wholeness, identifies humanity (and wit) with animals and plants, obliquely associates a mouse with Charles II and, by displaying a paradoxical treatment of animals that do not belong to the poetical tradition, sheds light on the ‘split’ spirit of his age. …”
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    The Formula of Plague Narratives by Jørgen Riber Christensen

    Published 2015-10-01
    “…The samples include: Exodus, History of the Peloponnesian War, Samuel Pepys’ Diary, A Journal of the Plague Year, The Last Man, The Plague in Bergamo, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Doomsday, The Dead Zone, World War Z. …”
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    The Past, Present, and Future of Public Health Surveillance by Bernard C. K. Choi

    Published 2012-01-01
    “….–370 B.C.) coined the terms endemic and epidemic, John Graunt (1620–1674) introduced systematic data analysis, Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) started epidemic field investigation, William Farr (1807–1883) founded the modern concept of surveillance, John Snow (1813–1858) linked data to intervention, and Alexander Langmuir (1910–1993) gave the first comprehensive definition of surveillance. …”
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    Paperscapes: navigating books in Early Modern England by Wilson, G

    Published 2020
    “…The chapters focus on the paper volvelles that direct readers around George Wither’s <em>Collection of Emblemes</em> (1635), whose verse enables spiritual as well as bibliographic modes of navigation; on the stories that imprints tell about paper’s journeys through the city, which collide with the textual routes of James Howell’s <em>Londinopolis</em> (1657); on the moving sheets and books which trouble the rhetoric of Samuel Pepys’ aspirationally static library; and on the global narratives of circulation in which John Taylor’s <em>The Praise of Hempseed</em> (1620) implicates paper. …”
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    Presentación by Coordinación editorial

    Published 2020-09-01
    “…Dos visiones de la misma peste de Armando González-Torres reflexiona sobre los diarios de dos escritores ingleses: Samuel Pepys y Daniel Defoe sobre la epidemia que azotó Londres, con la asombrosa actualidad del momento en que vivimos. …”
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