John Aubrey : my own life

John Aubrey : my own life / Ruth Scurr.

"Born on the brink of the modern world, John Aubrey was witness to the great intellectual and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. He knew everyone of note in Englandwriters, philosophers, mathematicians, doctors, astrologers, lawyers, statesmen--and wrote about them all, leaving beh...

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Main Author: Scurr, Ruth (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York Review Books, [2015]
Subjects:
Aubrey, John, > 1626-1697.
Antiquarians > England > Biography.
Biographies
Biography.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • England's collector
  • Wiltshire
  • Oxford
  • War
  • Learning
  • Restoration
  • Stone, water, fire
  • Work
  • Surrey
  • Penury
  • The popish plot
  • Brief lives
  • More lives and deaths
  • Manuscripts
  • Transcriptions
  • Crepusculum
  • Aubrey's afterlife.

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