Pepys’s Place
Pat Rogers, 16 June 1983
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol X: Companion and Vol XI: Index
edited by Robert Latham.
Bell and Hyman, 626 pp., £19.50, February 1983,0 7135 1993 2 Show More
edited by Robert Latham.
Bell and Hyman, 626 pp., £19.50, February 1983,
The Diary of John Evelyn
edited by John Bowle.
Oxford, 476 pp., £19.50, April 1983,0 19 251011 8 Show More
edited by John Bowle.
Oxford, 476 pp., £19.50, April 1983,
The Brave Courtier: Sir William Temple
by Richard Faber.
Faber, 187 pp., £15, February 1983,0 571 11982 4 Show More
by Richard Faber.
Faber, 187 pp., £15, February 1983,
“... experiments with mice – or with dogs. Pepys was surrounded by virtuosi such as Wilkes, Hooke and Boyle: he picked up only a few crumbs of hard science, but it would be natural for him to seek in his own secret expressive medium some of the demystifying, deconstructive functions of the new scientific styles of thought. In his biography Ollard writes ... ”