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William And John Innys

 
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Synopsis

The Present State Of The Republick Of Letters is a December 1732 issue of a London-based periodical surveying religion, history, biography, classical literature, and contemporary scholarship. This mid-18th-century digest presents a sequence of long articles and reviews each treating distinct topics, including debates on revelation and prophecy, biographical and antiquarian criticism, and bibliographic notices. It discusses the legitimacy of revelation, the interpretation of prophecy, and the role of classical poets; it surveys editorial work on Homer with Clarke’s annotations and notes Arbuthnot’s practical treatise on diet and the human constitution as a model of empirical medicine. The issue also offers notices on print culture and dissemination across European centers, as well as debates on space in natural philosophy, the state of learning in various cities, and critiques of Ottoman governance and skepticism. Overall, the work reflects a transnational Enlightenment culture—erudite, argumentative, and attentive to empirical method, religious rationality, and the growth of bibliographic scholarship.”

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