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20 results for "Science in Notes"

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Science in Notes

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Sites of scientific knowledge-making are also sites of prodigious note-taking, whether they accompany practices such as reading, observation, calculation, or experiment. In fact, note-taking serves not simply to register traces of such practices, but it...

15. How a sixteenth-century student took notes

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Virgil Paris, France, 1542-67 The second part of a tract volume of short texts of Latin classical authors printed in Paris ca. 1560 with wide margins and interlinear spacing for student annotations. This Sammelband (or collection of works bound together)...

Knowledge in Motion

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Notes are about knowledge, and as the exhibits so richly demonstrate, knowledge exists in a great many forms and rhythms—by which I mean that the pace of production and accumulation varies from one form of knowledge to another. Take, for example, the...

75. A philosopher's day job

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Henry David Thoreau Concord, MA, 1821-1854 Ubiquitous in modern American note-taking, pencils are less common in other times and places. The English term dates from the 14th century to designate a fine painter's brush, a usage that persisted into the...

Notes and Philosophy

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Greg Afinogenov Just as Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus gets going in earnest, the fictional editor publishing the book’s centerpiece—a fictional treatise on the “philosophy of clothes” by the equally fictional German philosopher “Teufelsdröckh”—receives...

01. Machine as note-taker

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Philip Drinker Harvard Medical School, 1927-1928 Although a pioneer in public health research on the hazards of exposure to lead and dust, Philip Drinker is best remembered for his development of a machine to induce artificial respiration—the Drinker...

14. Thomas Gray reads Linnaeus

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Carl von Linné (Carolus Linnaeus) Thomas Gray Cambridge, England, 1759-1762 Thomas Gray (1716-71), best known as the author of one of the enduring classics of 18th century poetry, the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, spent most of his career as a...

On Writing in Books

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David M. Levy As someone who loves books and libraries, I’ve always been disturbed to discover that a previous borrower has written in a book I’ve just checked out. In a heavily marked up copy of Rollo May’s Man’s Search for Himself ( item 59 in the...