Record Number: 21596
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I mentioned Mr. Maclaurin's uneasiness on account of a degree of ridicule carelessly thrown on his deceased father, in Goldsmith's "History of Animated Nature", in which that celebrated mathematician is represented as being subject to fits of yawning so violent as to render him incapable of proceeding in his lecture; a story altogether unfounded, but for the publication of which the law would give no reparation.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Until: 3 Apr 1776
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Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
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Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:History of the Earth and Animated Nature
Genre:Natural history
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:21596
Source:James Boswell
Editor:R.W. Chapman
Title:Life of Johnson
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1980
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Page:727
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Citation:
James Boswell, R.W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson, (Oxford, 1980), p. 727, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=21596, accessed: 02 November 2024
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Original date of publication 1791.