Notebooks, English virtuosi, and early modern science / Richard Yeo.

By:

Yeo, Richard R, 1948- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226106731
022610673X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Notebooks, English virtuosi, and early modern scienceDDC classification:

509.2/242 23

LOC classification:

Q127.G4 Y47 2014eb

NLM classification:

2015 B-020
Q 127.G4

Other classification:

AK 18000

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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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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.

English.

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