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Collecting medicine in early eighteenth-century Dublin
The library of Edward Worth
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The Edward Worth Library is the single most important medical collection surviving from early modern Ireland. This chapter provides an analysis of the make-up of Worth’s library and exploits surviving sales catalogues to reconstruct the networks whereby Worth pursued rare books from his base in Dublin. The particular strengths evident in the library, for example in relation to the works of Isaac Newton and his followers, are carefully considered. The significance of Leiden as a centre of learning and of Dutch publishing as a source for Worth’s books are also explored.

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