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1 online resource |
Contents |
Introduction -- Capacious memory and copious notebooks -- Information and empirical sensibility -- Taking notes in Samuel Hartlib's circle -- Rival memories: John Beale and Robert Boyle on empirical information -- Robert Boyle's loose notes -- John Locke, master note-taker -- Collective note-taking and Robert Hooke's dynamic archive -- Conclusion |
Summary |
In Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science, Richard Yeo interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes and notebooks of some of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution. Notebooks were important to several key members of the Royal Society of London, including Robert Boyle, John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, John Locke, and others, who drew on Renaissance humanist techniques of excerpting from texts to build storehouses of proverbs, maxims, quotations, and other material in personal notebooks, or commonplace books. Yeo shows that these men appreciate |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Hartlib, Samuel, -1662.
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Beale, John, 1603-1683?
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Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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Locke, John, 1632-1704.
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Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.
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Hartlib, Samuel, -1662 |
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Beale, John, 1603-1683? |
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Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 |
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Locke, John, 1632-1704 |
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Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703 |
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Beale, John, 1603-1683? fast |
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Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 fast |
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Hartlib, Samuel, -1662 fast |
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Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703 fast |
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Locke, John, 1632-1704 fast |
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Science -- England -- History
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Scientists -- England
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Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
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Science -- history
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History, 17th Century
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Records
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Medicine
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Science
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Scientists
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England https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739 |
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England
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History
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780226106731 |
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022610673X |
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