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Format: XVIII, 398 S. , Ill. , 24 cm

ISBN: 9780226106564

Note: Literaturverz. S. 339 - 369 , IntroductionCapacious 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.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780226106731

Additional Edition: Online-Ausg. Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science / Yeo, Richard R.

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Yeo, Richard R., 1948 - Notebooks, English virtuosi, and early modern science Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014 ISBN 9780226106731

Language: English

Subjects: General works

Keywords: Boyle, Robert 1627-1691 ; Hooke, Robert 1635-1703 ; Locke, John 1632-1704 ; England ; Wissenschaftliche Revolution ; England ; Naturwissenschaftler ; Notizbuch ; Geschichte 1600-1700

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Format: 1 online resource (417 p.)

ISBN: 0-226-10673-X

Content: 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, "ations, and other material in personal notebooks, or commonplace books. Yeo shows that these men appreciated the value of their own notes both as powerful tools for personal recollection, and, following Francis Bacon, as a system of precise record keeping from which they could retrieve large quantities of detailed information for collaboration. The virtuosi of the seventeenth century were also able to reach beyond Bacon and the humanists, drawing inspiration from the ancient Hippocratic medical tradition and its emphasis on the gradual accumulation of information over time. By reflecting on the interaction of memory, notebooks, and other records, Yeo argues, the English virtuosi shaped an ethos of long-term empirical scientific inquiry.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Editorial Notes -- , Preface -- , 1. Introduction -- , 2. Capacious Memory and Copious Notebooks -- , 3. Information and Empirical Sensibility -- , 4. Taking Notes in Samuel Hartlib's Circle -- , 5. Rival Memories: John Beale and Robert Boyle on Empirical Information -- , 6. Robert Boyle's Loose Notes -- , 7. John Locke, Master Note- taker -- , 8. Collective Note- taking and Robert Hooke's Dynamic Archive -- , 9. Conclusion -- , Acknowledgments -- , Notes -- , Manuscript Sources -- , Bibliography -- , Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-226-10656-X

Language: English

Subjects: General works

DOI: 10.7208/9780226106731

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Format: 1 online resource (xviii, 398 pages) : , illustrations (black and white)

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Content: In this work, 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.

Additional Edition: Print version ISBN 9780226106564

Language: English

URL: Chicago scholarship online