Notebooks, English virtuosi, and early modern science /

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 Londo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yeo, Richard R., 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Temas:
Hartlib, Samuel, > -1662.
Beale, John, > 1603-1683?
Boyle, Robert, > 1627-1691.
Locke, John, > 1632-1704.
Hooke, Robert, > 1635-1703.
Boyle, Robert, > 1627-1691
Hartlib, Samuel, > -1662
Hooke, Robert, > 1635-1703
Locke, John, > 1632-1704
1600-1699
Science > England > History.
Scientists > England.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
Science > history
History, 17th Century
Records
Sciences > Angleterre > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 17e siècle.
SCIENCE > History.
Medicine
Science
Scientists
England
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226106731
022610673X

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