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Author Yeo, Richard R., 1948- author.

Title Notebooks, English virtuosi, and early modern science / Richard Yeo
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014

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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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Hartlib, Samuel, -1662.
Beale, John, 1603-1683?
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.
SUBJECT Hartlib, Samuel, -1662
Beale, John, 1603-1683?
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Locke, John, 1632-1704
Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703
Beale, John, 1603-1683? fast
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 fast
Hartlib, Samuel, -1662 fast
Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703 fast
Locke, John, 1632-1704 fast
Subject Science -- England -- History
Scientists -- England
Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
Science -- history
History, 17th Century
Records
SCIENCE -- History.
Medicine
Science
Scientists
SUBJECT England https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739
Subject England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226106731
022610673X