Sidereal Messages
Print Letters in Restoration Astronomical Writing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21789902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Florian Klaeger (0000-0002-1569-336X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-76 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-0194 • E-ISSN: 1754-0208 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1754-0208.12926 |
| OpenAlex | W4392520345 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
Astronomy, a paradigmatic observational discipline of early modern ‘science’, relied on epistolary communication for coordinating practitioners across the world, publishing discoveries and theories, and seeking their confirmation from other virtuosi. Epistolary form ‘travelled’ from an individual exchange between scholars, via the print publication of such letters for the benefit of a wider readership, to the framing of bespoke isagogic textbooks. This article explores the affordances of Restoration printed astronomical letters, contrasting their performance of familiarity between sender and recipient with the public nature of the communication. By reference to letters published in the Philosophical Transactions , individual print letters, and letter‐books, including Christiaan Huygens's Cosmotheoros , the article shows how each type utilizes the familiar and the formal aspects of the letter form differently. The print letter emerges as a form uniquely suited for performing individual authority and fashioning an expert community, as well as communicating expert knowledge to non‐specialists
Astronomy · Physics · Sidereal time · Historical Astronomy and Related Studies · History · History and Developments in Astronomy · History of Science and Medicine
Epistolary Community in Print, 1580–1664
The ‘system of the world’ and the scientific culture of early modern France
The Royal Society’s role in the diffusion of information in the seventeenth century
The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare's England
Bearing the Heavens
Ideas in the Mind
Sociable Knowledge
Galileo, Bruno and the Rhetoric of Dialogue in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
Closed Circles or Open Networks
Lessons from Literature for the Historian of Science (and Vice Versa)
Epistolary Rhetoric, the Newspaper, and the Public Sphere
The Opened Letter
Etiquette, Interdependence, and Sociability in Seventeenth-Century Science
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |