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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yeo, Richard R., 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.