John Toland's Conjecture on the First Invention of Typographic Printing as Inspired by Cicero
Text and Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11344716 |
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| Authors | Bartholomew Begley (0000-0002-1486-2352, University College Cork, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 320-328 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of European Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01916599.2016.1144677 |
| OpenAlex | W2312339707 |
| Language | EN |
This is a translation of a short text in Latin by John Toland (1670–1722), with an introduction and annotations. Toland's text is a conjecture on the influence of a passage from Cicero on modern printing. The translator's introduction discusses the theories mentioned by Toland, and sketches the background of the text. It discusses Toland's interest in Cicero and the context of the text's publication in 1722 by Michel Maittaire, and Toland's and Maittaire's intertwined circles of literary patronage
Art · Cicero · Combinatorics · Conjecture · Context (archaeology · Literature · Classics · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Mathematics · Philosophy · Renaissance Literature and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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