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dc.contributor.authorYeo, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-19T01:00:17Z
dc.date.available2017-12-19T01:00:17Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.isbn9780226106564
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/66141
dc.description.abstractIn 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 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Press
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.publisher.urihttp://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo17220450.html
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical Studies not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode210399
dc.titleNotebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science
dc.typeBook
dc.type.descriptionA1 - Books
dc.type.codeA - Books
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorYeo, Richard R.


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