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CATEGORIES:Cabinet of Natural History
SUMMARY:To drink or not to drink: understanding 'types' of
  water in seventeenth-century England - Daniel Get
 tings (University of Warwick)
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/207052
DESCRIPTION:'Water is not all alike in goodness\; but much dif
 ference there is in this and that sort\; which we 
 may distinguish thus.' In his health treatise of 1
 683\, Dr Everard Maynwaringe succinctly expressed 
 a concept that occurred frequently across seventee
 nth-century literature on water\, that there were 
 many 'types' or 'sorts' to distinguish between. Se
 venteenth-century authors laboured to produce hier
 archies of 'waters'\, ranking them from best to wo
 rst based on environmental origins and justifying 
 their decisions through extensive prose. This pape
 r takes this substantial literature and seeks to e
 xplore what it can tell us about water's place in 
 early modern lives and\, particularly\, its status
  as a drink\, a subject on which early modern auth
 ors had very strong\, but divided opinions. Throug
 h examination of the wide variety of knowledge dra
 wn upon by authors to justify their positions as w
 ell as the sharing and adapting of ideas across th
 is literature\, the paper will explore understandi
 ngs of water while demonstrating the complex space
  it occupied in this period as a substance serving
  simultaneously as a scientific subject\, a consum
 able beverage\, and a facet of daily labour.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philoso
 phy of Science
CONTACT:Tom Banbury
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